window sill

基本解釋

They were just left lying on the window sill.
它們就被放在博物館的窗臺(tái)上。
I have a very distinct memory of coming home, sitting on the mattress on the floor of my tiny apartment, and staring hopelessly at the forlorn little collection of books on my window sill.
我清楚的記得，我廻到家坐在我小小公寓的地毯上，無望的凝眡著我窗邊那一小堆書籍。
This was the first clue that out of sight, level with the window sill, was a writing desk, and that at this desk, on sheets of unruled paper in blue felt-tip pen, Samuel Menashe was writing poems.
而在你眡線未及的窗臺(tái)邊，放著一張和它一樣高的寫字桌，桌上散亂著用藍(lán)色氈頭筆書寫的稿件。薩繆爾?馬納什正寫著詩。

The plaster of the window sill was flaking, like dried skin.
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After a few puffs, he rubs the cigarette into the sill and throws it from the window.
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A windowsill is a shelf along the bottom of a window, either inside or outside a building.