curtain
noun [ C ] uk/?k??.t?n/ us/?k??.t?n/
A2 （尤指布质的）帘，窗帘，门帘
a piece of material, especially cloth, that hangs across a window or opening to make a room or part of a room dark or private
Heavy curtains blocked out the sunlight. 厚厚的窗帘挡住了阳光。
to draw (= open or close) the curtains 拉窗帘
帘状物，幕状物
a thick layer of something that makes it difficult to see anything behind it
They could see nothing through the curtain of rain/smoke. 透过密密的雨帘／浓浓的烟雾，他们什么也看不到。
（舞台上的）帷幕，幕布
the large screen of heavy material in a theatre that separates the stage from the area where people are watching
- More examples
- The audience was still laughing as the curtain fell.
- He pulled the curtain aside.
- I'm trying to match up this wallpaper with some suitable curtain material.
- A coat of paint and new curtains would really cheer the kitchen up.
- I peered through a chink in the curtains and saw them all inside.
Idioms
be curtains for someoneidiom informal …会送命；…会完蛋
#p#分页标题#e#used to say someone will die or have to stop doing something
It'll be curtains for him if he doesn't do what I tell him! 要是他不按我说的办，他就完了！
the curtain falls on somethingidiom literary （某个时期）结束
When the curtain falls on a period of time, it ends.
Although the curtain has now fallen on the 20th century, many of its values still remain. 虽然二十世纪已经结束，但是它的很多价值观依然延续。
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