單詞
barbican
英 ['bɑ?b?k(?)n]
美
基本信息
- n. 外堡;槍眼;碉堡或其他類似的防御工事
英文詞源
- barbican (n.)
- "outer fortification of a city or castle," mid-13c., from Old French barbacane (12c.), a general Romanic word, perhaps ultimately from Arabic or Persian (compare bab-khanah "gate-house"). Watkins identifies it as from Old Iranian *pari-varaka "protective," from *wor-o-, suffixed variant form of PIE root *wer- (5) "to cover" (see wier).
雙語例句
- 1. Warwick Arts Centre is the second largest Arts Centre in Britain, surpassed in size only by London's Barbican.
- 沃里克藝術(shù)中心是英國第二大藝術(shù)中心,規(guī)模僅次于倫敦的巴比肯。
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