attic
名词 n.
英文释义
名词 n.
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The space, often unfinished and with sloped walls, directly below the roof in the uppermost part of a house or other building, generally used for storage or habitation.
— We went up to the attic to look for the boxes containing our childhood keepsakes.
- A storey or a parapet above the cornice of a classical façade, often decorated.
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A person's head or brain.
— […] was a diminutive, forked-radish sort of a young man, very fashionably attired, or, as he would say, kiddily togg'd; and, though it was scarcely noon, he was rather queer in the attic; that is to say, not exactly sober.
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词汇关系
词源
From the practice of decorating the top storey of building facades in the Attic architectural style. From French attique, from Latin atticus, from Ancient Greek Ἀττικός (Attikós).
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