Latch

(noun.) catch for fastening a door or gate; a bar that can be lowered or slid into a groove.

(noun.) spring-loaded doorlock that can only be opened from the outside with a key.

(verb.) fasten with a latch; 'latch the door'.

阿斯特编辑

• Of course, with a door only on the latch behind me, I lost not my opportunity. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Research has shown, however, that the latch was not broadly new with Hibbert, as it appeared in the French patent to Jeandeau, No. 1,900, of April 25, 1806. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Taking the brewery on my way back, I raised the rusty latch of a little door at the garden end of it, and walked through. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• As for hindrance to this step, there offered not so much as a creaking hinge or a clicking latch. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• He was looking away; but at the sound of the latch he turned quickly round. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• 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.
• Softly now, like one who has only one sense, the tactile sense, he turned the latch. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• It was a cold hard easterly morning when he latched the garden gate and turned away. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The great gates were closed and locked; but a wicket in one of them was only latched. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.

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