postern

1. He sat within earshot, milking the cows by the light of a lantern, which I seized unceremoniously, and, calling out that I would send it back on the morrow, rushed to the nearest postern.
   他坐在说话听得见的近处，借着一盏提灯的光在挤牛奶，我就毫无礼貌地把提灯抢过来，大喊着我明天把它送回来，便奔向最近的一个边门。
2. We slip out of the postern door of the castle.
   我们从城堡的后门溜出。
3. Instead of taking the short cut along the Sound we went down the road and entered by the big postern.
   我们没有抄近路沿海边过去，而是绕到大路上，从巨大的后门进去的。
4. In certain sense, it reconstructed existence in a higher realm of existence. The aesthetic existence has a postern to the religious existence.
   某种意义上，它在一个更高的生存境界中重构了生存，审美生存有一条通往宗教生存的暗道。

noun

1. a small gate in the rear of a fort or castle