cornice
n
(architecture 建)
1 ornamental moulding, eg in plaster, round the walls of a room, just below the ceiling 檐口(墙顶上带装饰的突出体, 如用灰泥制的). =>illus at column 见column之插图.
2 horizontal strip of carved wood or stone along the top of an outside wall (沿外墙的雕木或石刻的)飞檐.
3 overhanging mass of snow or rock on the side of a mountain 雪檐(冻结在悬崖边缘的悬垂的冰雪块; (向外突出的)悬崖.
I got lost for two days and I couldn't find anyone who could understand me.
我已经迷路两天了,找不到一个人可以听懂我的话。
What time do you get up every day?
你每天什么时间起床?
is as the proportion of the total vocabulary of his mother tongue against those words of his own baby talk that are taken up into the vernacular of his family.