terrace
英 ['ter?s]
美['t?r?s]
- n. 平台；梯田；阳台
- vt. 使成梯田，使成阶地；使有平台屋顶
- vi. 成阶地；成梯田；筑成坛
- adj. （女服）叠层式的
- n. (Terrace)人名；(英)特勒斯
CET6TEM4IELTSGRETOEFL中低频词常用词汇
词态变化
复数:?terraces;
中文词源
terrace 排房，排屋，阶梯看台，梯田
terr-,土地，陆地，-ace,名词后缀。原指在土地上所修建的平台或平整土地使成平台状，引申 诸相关词义。
英文词源
- terrace
- terrace: [16] Terrace is one of a small family of English words that go back ultimately to Latin terra ‘earth, land’. This was probably descended from Indo-European *tersā- ‘dry’ (source also of English thirst, torrid, etc), in which case it denoted etymologically ‘dry land’, as opposed to ‘sea’. The family also includes inter [14] (etymologically ‘put into the earth’), terra cotta [18] (from Italian, literally ‘cooked earth’), terra firma [17] (literally ‘firm land’), terrain [18], terrestrial [15], terrier [15] (etymologically a dog which is sent down burrows in the ‘earth’ after its quarry), terrine, territory [15], and tureen. Terrace itself came via Old French terrace from the Vulgar Latin derivative *terrāceus, which denoted a ‘platform made from a pile of earth or rubble’.
=> terrain, terrestrial, terrier, terrine, territory, thirst, torrid, tureen - terrace (n.)
- 1510s, "gallery, portico, balcony," later "flat, raised place for walking" (1570s), from Middle French terrace (Modern French terasse), from Old French terrasse (12c.) "platform (built on or supported by a mound of earth)," from Vulgar Latin *terracea, fem. of *terraceus "earthen, earthy," from Latin terra "earth, land" (see terrain). As a natural formation in geology, attested from 1670s. In street names, originally in reference to a row of houses along the top of a slope, but lately applied arbitrarily as a fancy name for an ordinary road. As a verb from 1610s, "to form into a terrace." Related: Terraced.
双语例句
- 1. A flight of stone steps leads to the terrace.
- 一段石阶通向露台。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. Nervously clutching our glasses of chilled wine, we gathered on the terrace.
- 我们聚集在露台上,手里紧张地握着盛有冰镇葡萄酒的酒杯.
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. Single room in lovely flat, roof terrace, non-smoking prof., woman pref.
- 舒适公寓中的单间，带屋顶阳台，不抽烟的职业人士，女士优先。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. There is an inviting restaurant with an outdoor terrace.
- 有一家诱人的带露天阳台的饭馆。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. They sat on the clubhouse terrace, downing a round of drinks.
- 他们坐在俱乐部会所的露台上，大口喝着别人请的饮料。
来自柯林斯例句