Portal

(noun.) a grand and imposing entrance (often extended metaphorically); 'the portals of the cathedral'; 'the portals of heaven'; 'the portals of success'.

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• Entering a portal, fastened only by a latch, I stood amidst a space of enclosed ground, from which the wood swept away in a semicircle. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• The lawn, the grounds were trodden and waste: the portal yawned void. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• For three days men crazed with fear have surged about this portal in vain attempts to solve its mystery. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• My fingers clawed futilely at the unyielding portal, while my eyes sought in vain for a duplicate of the button which had given us ingress. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• They passed across the lawn, out through a portal in the garden wall. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Death is a vast portal, an high road to life: let us hasten to pass; let us exist no more in this living death, but die that we may live! 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• He had opened the portal and stood at it, waiting for me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I forgot him, as I swiftly darted through the open portal, and up the majestic stairs of this castle of victories--heard Adrian's voice--O fool! 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The portal swung slowly in, and before it could be slammed against me I sprang into the chamber beyond. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• When Jane and Esmeralda found themselves safely behind the cabin door the Negress's first thought was to barricade the portal from the inside. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Who, standing in the portal, received them with ghostly gloom, and all her other appliances of ceremony. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• He beat furiously upon the heavy portal. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• No youthful congregation of gallant-hearted boys thronged the portal of the college; sad silence pervaded the busy school-room and noisy playground. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The hermit speedily unbolted his portal, and admitted Locksley, with his two companions. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• So there was splendour and wealth, but no great happiness perchance, behind the tall caned portals of Gaunt House with its smoky coronets and ciphers. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• About noon I dragged myself wearily to the portals of a huge building which covered perhaps four square miles and towered two hundred feet in the air. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• In the cab they continued to remain silent through the brief drive which carried them to the illuminated portals of the Stepneys' hotel. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• The massy portals of the churches swung creaking on their hinges; and some few lay dead on the pavement. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• It was now dusk, but the watchers at the gate saw the approaching trio and distinguished one as a prisoner ere they reached the portals. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Opening the gates I ordered the two great beasts to pass out, and then slipping quietly after them I closed the portals behind me. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• Dear brethren, let us tremble before those august portals. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The portals of the great western front are bisected by square pillars. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• On they came to the portals of Kulonga's hut, the very one in which Tarzan had wrought his depredations. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.

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