Holly hung around every doorway; and shining white Christmas trees covered in magical snow and icicles glittered in every corner, each topped with a gleaming gold star.

每个门口都挂着冬青，用魔法加盖自雪和冰凌圣诞树在每个屋角闪闪发亮，树顶着一颗闪烁金星。

The whitewashed brick plantation house seemed an island set in a wild red sea, a sea of spiraling, curving, crescent billows petrified suddenly at the moment when the pink-tipped waves were breaking into surf.

农场那座粉刷白砖房如同落在茫茫红海中一个岛屿，那是一起由新月形巨浪组成海，但是当那些带粉红红顶水波分裂为浪花时，它立即僵化。

The cathedral spire in Christchurch, New Zealand falls as an earthquake leaves 182 dead.

地震导致新西兰基督城教堂顶坍塌，造成 182 死亡。

Scores of the relics that survived were taken to the Louvre Museum, what was lost the cathedral's spire, large parts of its roof and it's ancient vaulted ceiling.

幸存下来几十件文物被送到宫博物馆，教堂顶、部分屋顶和古老拱形天花板都被毁掉。

Its steeped form reduces in size and tops out unevenly around a central spire.

它陡峭外形缩小体积，顶部围绕着一个高不平中央顶。

French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe announced an international competition to redesign the roof and 300 foot spire the flames destroyed.

法国总理Edouard Philippe 宣布一项重新设计屋顶和300英尺顶国际竞赛。

Torajans are famous for their massive peaked-roof houses and spectacular but gruesome funeral rites.

托拉哈人以其巨顶房屋和壮观但可怕葬礼仪式而闻名。

The folks here say normally you'd barely be able to see even the tip of the medieval church because it would be almost fully submerged.

当地居民称，通常情况下，人们甚至连中世纪教堂顶都看不见，因为它几乎完全被淹没。

An old, pointed blue hat, that had belonged to some Munchkin, was perched on his head, and the rest of the figure was a blue suit of clothes, worn and faded, which had also been stuffed with straw.

戴着一顶芒奇金人破旧蓝色顶帽子，身上套着蓝色衣服，已经褪色，身体里面也是用稻草充塞。

I had come ten miles since leaving the town, and at this point, according to my father, I should be looking at farms and cottages in a valley, with the spire of the church of our village showing in the far distance.

从小镇出来，我走10英里。照父亲说法，我面前应是一个山谷，有农场与村舍，还可远远望见老家村子里教堂顶。

Rising up from the skyline is the spire of Toledo Cathedral.

从地平线上升起是托莱多教堂顶。

It rose from the semi-globular mound like a spike from a helmet.

它从那个半圆球型小丘升起，像是钢盔顶一样。

Something with long teeth and a pointy hat, at any rate.

总而言之，是留着长獠牙、戴着顶帽玩偶。

It doesn't matter that the big donors haven't yet paid because the choices about the spire and the major architectural decisions will happen probably late in 2020, he said.

" 型捐赠者没有出资不重要，因为关于顶选择和主要建筑决策可能要到2020年底才能做出。"

It was a sea of pointed black hats; each of the long House tables was lined with students, their faces glimmering by the light of thousands of candles, which were floating over the tables in midair.

礼堂里是一片顶黑帽子海洋；每张长长桌子旁边都坐满学生，成千支蜡烛照得他们脸庞发亮，这些蜡烛悬在桌子上方半空中。

The clock hands on the steeple of St. Anthony's Shrine were stuck at 8: 45 a.m., the exact moment when the first suicide bomber's explosion ripped through the wooden pews as Easter Sunday worshipers were praying.

圣安东尼教堂顶上时钟指针停在上午8点45分位置，也就是在那一刻，第一起自杀式炸弹袭击炸穿教堂里木头长椅，当时，礼拜人群正在参加复活节礼拜。

Oh, if only I had been a man! I looked at them from my window -- the fat swine, with their pointed helmets -- and my maid held my hands to keep me from throwing my furniture down on them.

唉，如果我是个男人就好！我一定跟他们拼！我从我窗口瞧着他们，这些头戴顶头盔肥猪，我女佣人抓住我手，不让我把家具扔下去砸断他们脊梁骨。

At first his companions trusted him implicitly, and so great were the delights of flying that they wasted time circling round church spires or any other tall objects on the way that took their fancy.

起初，同伴们是绝对相信他，而且飞行带来乐趣太，看到教堂顶，或别什么高高东西，他们就绕着转圈儿，浪费许多时间。

At that moment a very strange thing happened. The moon was low upon our right, and in its light we could see the top of a hill.

就在那时，发生一件非常奇怪事情。月亮悬在我们右侧空中，我们在月光下看到一座小山顶。

As for the savages, they went back to shore near eleven o'clock in the morning, when the heads of coral began to disappear under the waves of the rising tide.

至于那些土人，在早晨十一点左右，当珊瑚石顶开始在上涨潮水下隐没不见时，都回到岸上去。