awning

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈɔːnɪŋ/    美 /ˈɔnɪŋ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A rooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind.
    — At Nairobi the mail waits an hour-and-a-half. The station has three long platforms, mostly covered in awnings, the island connected with the main platform (which is used by the mails in both directions) by a subway.
  2. That part of the poop deck which is continued forward beyond the bulkhead of the cabin.

词形变化

awnings plural

词汇关系

衍生词
awninged awning window
相关词
canopy

词源

1615-25 (nautical sense only); from *awn + -ing, reduction of Middle French auvans (“sloping roof”), from Old French anvant (1180), from Gaulish *an(de)bannā (“eaves”) (compare Occitan ambans (“parapet”)), form of *ande- (intensive prefix) (compare Welsh an-, Old Irish ind-) + *bandā (“horn; peak”) (compare Welsh ban, Irish beann).
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