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。
pattern: damaged pediment under repair
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。
pediment on a temple facade
- stone pediment
- broken pediment
- carved pediment
- temple pediment
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.