A trestle table is an item of furniture comprising two or three trestle supports linked by a longitudinal cross-member over which a board or tabletop is placed.Webster's Third New International Dictionary In the Middle Ages the trestle table was often little more than loose boards over trestle legs for ease of assembly and storage.
例句与用法
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The guests were sitting at long trestle tables under a ceiling of vines , or dancing in a clearing of beaten earth 宾客们要不围坐在有藤顶遮盖的长折叠桌旁,要不就在一块土质夯实的空地上跳舞。
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Rows of trestle tables are stacked with books , maps and old hand - coloured lithographs and wood engravings from all over britain 成排的支桌上堆满了来自英国各地的书籍、地图以及古老的手绘平版画和木刻版画。
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In the cloth - market , for instance , all the sellers of material for clothes , curtains , chaircovers and so on line the roadway on both sides , each open fronted shop having a trestle table for display and shelves for storage 译文:例如,在布市上,所有那些卖衣料、窗帘布、椅套布等的商贩都把货摊一个接一个地排设在马路两边,每一个店铺门前都摆有一张陈列商品的搁板桌和一些存放货物的货架。