1.天花板;顶棚the top inside surface of a room
She lay on her back staring up at the ceiling.她仰卧着凝视天花板。
a large room with a high ceiling屋顶很高的大房间
2.最高限度;上限;最大限量the highest limit or amount of sth
price ceilings最高限价
3.升限;最高飞行限度the greatest height at which a particular aircraft is able to fly
Housefly Bob: Well, I was just thinking how much money people spent building this beautiful ceiling and then they walk on the floor!
苍蝇鲍勃:你看,我在想人类花了多少钱来装修天花板,可是他们却不用,反而在地板上行走。
If I was to get a habit (as you call it) of walking on the ceiling, like the flies, I should hear enough of it, I daresay.
如果我得了一个像你所说的习惯,像苍蝇一样在天花板上走来走去,那么我想我对这就会听够了。
Even when the worker hammers at the ceiling of the basement, I tell you to see the pipes the lines inside, which makes you dirty.
甚至当工人敲打地下室天花板时,我居然叫你去看里面的管线,弄得你一头灰!
China and India both signed up to a less polluting course of growth, but balked at putting a ceiling on emissions within the next few years.
中国和印度都签署了减少经济发展进程中的污染,但是回避在未来几年设定排放量上限。
The only thing that denotes the elevator to be a Schindler is the characteristic annular ceiling ventilation fan grille design.
唯一得以标明电梯是一部迅达的就是那个属于特徵的环形吸顶式抽气风扇格栅设计。
Talen was looking straight up at the ceiling, not even blinking, he wasn't bleeding but there was a red mark on his head.
塔伦是直视天花板,甚至不闪烁,不出血,但他有一个在他头上的红色标记。
A fuzzy puff playful motif where the ceiling is adorned with dandelion puffs seems to float and drift through the air.
应用绒毛活泼主题的天花板则装饰有蒲公英的绒毛,看起来像是漂浮在空中。
What little space there wAS below the sloping ceiling wAS AS closely covered with pictures AS an Italian votive chapel.
倾斜的天花板下面那一点点空间,如同意大利还愿礼拜堂那样密密地贴满了图画。
The Asian giant is so powerful, in fact, that it could -- if it chose -- help the White House end the debt-ceiling impasse.
实际上,这位亚洲巨人的实力如此强大,如果它愿意,或许可以帮助白宫(WhiteHouse)打破有关债务上限的僵局。
Gates is also known as an avid reader and the ceiling of his large, home library is engraved with a quotation from The Great Gatsby.
众所周知,盖茨是个手不释卷的人。他的家里有很多藏书,在他的书房的屋顶上有一段引自《伟大的盖茨比》的文字。
Change the color of your carpet and bedspreads into ivory white and that of your ceiling lamps into light green.
所以,把地毯、床罩都换成淡雅的象牙白,顶灯的颜色也换成淡绿色。
'There seems to be no price ceiling, ' says Mr. Lin. 'The problem is always the supply. '
林先生说,“艺术品价格似乎没有封顶的时候,唯一的问题始终都是货源。”
"At the moment, she's there with a hole in the ceiling over her head. I don't have time to fix it, " Eugene admits.
“现在,在她的头上的天花板上就有一个破洞在那里。我根本没有时间修理它”尤金承认说。
Hooked up to the heart rate monitor was a pale body, staring off into the ceiling, seeming like she was off in La La land of sorts.
与心率显示器相连的是一具苍白的身躯。她呆滞地凝视着天花板的神情,让人觉得她似乎有点神志不清。
Shortly after graduating, her hands also began to shake and her eyes rolled towards the ceiling uncontrollably.
毕业后不久,她的双手也开始震颤,她的眼球则无法控制地向上翻。
Unable to sleep, I tossed restlessly in the bed and stared at the ceiling, wondering what life would be like stuck on a tiny island.
我睡不着,在床上不安份地翻来翻去,盯着天花板看,想像着困在小岛上,以后的日子该怎么过。
Some of them were smoking in a very classical style, one slim cigarette was between two slim pale fingers up to the ceiling.
有些人抽烟的姿态非常经典,两只细细的苍白的手指间夹着一只细细的香烟,冲着天花板。
But he said that the current blueprint, if passed, at least deals with the debt ceiling and that the government's bills will be paid.
不过他说,如果当前的计划能够通过,至少债务上限的协定能够达成,那么政府的账单能够付清了。
There was a small click, and the ball of light from the lamp flew back to the ceiling and illuminated them all once more.
随着“喀哒”一声轻响,灯火球又飞回到天花板,照亮整个房间。
Loudspeakers embedded in the ceiling of every room summon reporters to inspection tours of NATO targets, often in the middle of the night.
而镶在每个房间天花板上的扩音器召集记者们去巡视北约轰炸的目标,通常会是在午夜前后。
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