ceiling
US:/ˈsilɪŋ/
UK:/ˈsiːlɪŋ/
n.:
天花板；上限；顶棚；最高限度
网络:
上升限度；最高限额；顶篷
Word forms: (复数) ceilings
Examples
1.
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。
2.
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。
3.
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！
4.
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。
5.
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。
6.
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。
7.
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。
8.
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。
9.
'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。”
10.
"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。