Amphitheatre

(n.) An oval or circular building with rising tiers of seats about an open space called the arena.

(n.) Anything resembling an amphitheater in form; as, a level surrounded by rising slopes or hills, or a rising gallery in a theater.

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• One of the doctors put a mask over her face and I looked through the door and saw the bright small amphitheatre of the operating room. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• Presently we came upon our destination, a great amphitheatre situated at the further edge of the plain, and about half a mile beyond the garden walls. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• We'll go tomorrow to Verona, and find Romeo and Juliet, and sit in the amphitheatre--shall we? 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• They are massacring all within the amphitheatre. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Elsewhere we saw a huge Roman amphitheatre, with its stone seats still in good preservation. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The Colosseum at Rome, for example, the arena of many great gladiatorial shows, was converted into a fortress, and so was the amphitheatre at Arles. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• For an instant silence reigned in the great amphitheatre, then a wild shout arose from the cages of the doomed. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• The amphitheatre, like all I had ever seen upon Barsoom, was built in a large excavation. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• We all stood in the vast theatre of ancient Ephesus,--the stone-benched amphitheatre I mean--and had our picture taken. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The Alps here come closer to the lake, and we approached the amphitheatre of mountains which forms its eastern boundary. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• On both sides of the throne stretched a solid mass of humanity from top to bottom of the amphitheatre. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.

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