pediment
pediment — 名詞
- pedimentsingular
- pedimentsplural
1. a three-sided architectural feature placed above a main entrance or row of colum
山牆飾
建築入口上方的三角裝飾
a three-sided architectural feature placed above a main entrance or row of columns, often carved and used to finish the front roofline
Tourists stopped to photograph the carved pediment above the town hall doors.
遊客停下來拍攝市政廳大門上方雕刻精美的山牆飾。
common location: pediment above a public entrance
Rain had darkened the stone pediment over the old library steps.
雨水讓舊圖書館台階上方的石製山牆飾變暗了。
collocation: stone pediment
Workers covered the broken pediment before the storm reached the church.
暴風雨抵達教堂前，工人先蓋住了破損的山牆飾。
At dusk, birds lined the pediment on the museum's front wall.
黃昏時，鳥兒排排站在博物館正面牆上的山牆飾邊緣。
Alessia sketched the temple pediment while her class waited outside.
班上同學在外面等候時，Alessia 畫下了那座神廟的山牆飾。
文法句型
a pediment above + entrance/doorway
stone pediment
broken pediment
用法筆記
Common in architecture, art-history, and museum writing. It usually names the triangular front above an entrance or columned facade, not the whole roof end of an ordinary house.