| 单词 | terrace |
|---|---|
| 音标 | ['terəs] |
| 解释 | n.一层梯田；阳台 |
| 红宝书 | 【英】 n.一层梯田； 阳台(a colonnaded porch) 【记】 terr(地)+ace→梯田 【例】 terraced roof(平顶屋) |
| 字源 | 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. |
| 不择手段背单词 | n. 一层梯田; 天台 【记】ter = terrain(n 地形), ace－梯田; 天台 |
| 趣味全助记 | 【记】terr 土地 + race 赛跑，可以用来赛跑的地 |
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