Niche

(noun.) (ecology) the status of an organism within its environment and community (affecting its survival as a species).

(noun.) a position particularly well suited to the person who occupies it; 'he found his niche in the academic world'.

校对:莫利

• From the niche a single object protruded into the light from the candles on the table. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The flag with the inscription SLEARY'S HORSE-RIDING was there; and the Gothic niche was there; but Mr. Sleary was not there. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Sleary himself, a stout modern statue with a money-box at its elbow, in an ecclesiastical niche of early Gothic architecture, took the money. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• She beckoned the Jew towards her, as she reached down the shrub-bottle from its niche, and whispered: 'Child, or woman? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• To-night the watering-pot might rest in its niche by the well: a small rain had been drizzling all the afternoon, and still it fell fast and quietly. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• We saw a new statue put in its niche yesterday, alongside of one which had been standing these four hundred years, they said. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Altogether a man who seems made for his niche, mamma; sagacious, and strong, as becomes a great tradesman. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• With this prospect before him, we shall get Fred into the right niche somehow, and I hope I shall live to join your hands. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Not far from here was a niche where they used to preserve a piece of the True Cross, but it is gone, now. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The angels that I know are creatures of unstable fancy--they will not fit in niches of substantial stone. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• But the niches that had contained the ashes of these renowned crusaders were empty. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.

整理:蒂娜