porch: [13] Porch and portico [17] are ultimately the same word. Both go back to Italian portico, a descendant of Latin porticus ‘covered gallery or entry’, but whereas portico was borrowed directly, porch came via Old French porche. Porticus was derived from Latin porta ‘gate’, source of the port of English porthole. => port, portico
porch (n.)
c. 1300, "covered entrance," from Old French porche "porch, vestibule," from Latin porticus "covered gallery, covered walk between columns, arcade, portico, porch," from porta "gate, entrance, door" (see port (n.2)). The Latin word was borrowed directly into Old English as portic.
实用例句
1. We'd eat during the hot summer evenings on the front porch.
在炎热的夏夜，我们会在屋前走廊上吃晚饭。
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2. She huddled inside the porch as she rang the bell.
她按门铃时身子在门廊里缩成一团。
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3. I went out there on the front porch.
我出来走到前廊上。
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4. One morning we came upon an abandoned undernourished puppy on the porch.
一天早上在走廊上我发现了一只营养不良、被人抛弃的小狗.
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5. There are thousands of pages of advertising on our porch.
