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porch

/pawrch, pohrch/US // pɔrtʃ, poʊrtʃ //UK // (pɔːtʃ) //

门廊,廊道,廊桥,门厅

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an exterior appendage to a building, forming a covered approach or vestibule to a doorway.
    • : a veranda.
    • : the Porch, the portico or stoa in the agora of ancient Athens, where the Stoic philosopher Zeno of Citium and his followers met.
    • : Obsolete. a portico.

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Examples

  • “I was losing it,” Peter later recalled as we sat on their front porch on a far-too-warm November afternoon in Altadena, California, just below the San Gabriel Mountains.

  • He got sicker and decided to drive himself to the hospital, but made it no farther than his front porch.

  • A rear porch partially collapsed, and one firefighter was injured.

  • He also mailed a bottle to Charlie Sheen, who never tasted it because it was stolen from his front porch, probably because it was tantalizingly labeled “Top Secret,” so O’Neill sent another.

  • Democrats and inauguration fans, trying to make the best of things, are looking for small ways to be part of the moment, even from their porches.

  • He stands, one assumes on a porch, which overlooks a prairie.

  • Davis jumped over a 4-foot porch wall and ran into a house, where he and others crammed themselves into a linen closet.

  • Gosta Peterson sits on the porch of his Long Island home and greets passersby.

  • On the porch, before I go, Peterson looks at me through the lens of a small digital camera before training it on his front lawn.

  • She taught little black boys to love themselves, and look beyond their own front porch to the hope of a broader horizon.

  • Sol laughed out of his whiskers, with a big, loose-rolling sound, and sat on the porch without waiting to be asked.

  • The lady in black was reading her morning devotions on the porch of a neighboring bathhouse.

  • Sarah was standing on the porch again wiping her hands on her apron, looking away toward the fields.

  • The bells were clashing merrily from the village spire as the party passed out of the church porch.

  • The fight was over and Lawrence rode up to the house, and was met on the porch by a white haired, fine looking old gentleman.