中文翻译与英英解释 | a small arch built across the interior angle of two walls (usually to support a spire)
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| cross one''s eyes as if in strabismus; "The children squinted so as to scare each other" 同义词:squint,
| | draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf" 同义词:flinch, funk, cringe, shrink, wince, recoil, quail,
| | crouch down
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A squinch in architecture is a construction filling in the upper angles of a square room so as to form a base to receive an octagonal or spherical dome. A later solution of this structural problem was provided by the pendentive. |
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