attic

英 ['?t?k] 美['?t?k]

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復(fù)數(shù):?attics;

attic 閣樓

來(lái)自Attic, 雅典別稱，指該地一種建筑風(fēng)格。

attic: attic: [18] In classical architecture, an Attic order was a pilaster, or square column (the na?e comes from Attica, a region of ancient Greece of which Athens was the capital). This type of column was often used in a relatively low storey placed above the much higher main fa?ade of a building, which hence became known in the 18th century as an attic storey. It was a short step to applying the word attic itself to an ‘upper storey’; the first record of it in this sense comes in Byron’s Beppo 1817: ‘His wife would mount, at times, her highest attic’.
Attic (adj.): 1590s, "pertaining to Attica," from Latin Atticus, from Greek Attikos "Athenian, of Attica," the region around Athens (see Attica). Attested from 1560s as an architectural term for a type of column base.
attic (n.): "top story under the roof of a house," 1855, shortened from attic storey (1724). The term Attic order in classical architecture meant a small, square decorative column of the type often used in a low story above a building's main facade, a feature associated with the region around Athens (see Attic). The word then was applied by architects to "a low decorative facade above the main story of a building" (1690s in English) to convey a classical heritage where none exists, and it came to mean the space enclosed by such a structure. The modern use is via French attique. "An attic is upright, a garret is in a sloping roof" [Weekley].

1. There are five bedrooms, a large attic above, and wine cellars below.: 有5間臥室，頂層是一個(gè)寬敞的閣樓，底下是酒窖。

4. The idea evolved from a drawing I discovered in the attic.: 這種想法是從我在閣樓里發(fā)現(xiàn)的一幅畫(huà)得到啟發(fā)的。