balcony: [17] Balcony entered English from Italian balcone, but it seems to be ultimately of Germanic origin. It was probably borrowed into Old Italian, with the meaning ‘scaffold’. from Germanic *balkon ‘beam’, source of English balk – perhaps from the notion of a platform or scaffold being built from beams of timber, although the connection is not altogether clear. => balk
balcony (n.)
1610s, from Italian balcone, from balco "scaffold," from a Germanic source (perhaps Langobardic *balko- "beam," cognate with Old English balca "beam, ridge;" see balk (n.)) + Italian augmentative suffix -one. Till c. 1825, regularly accented on the second syllable.
雙語(yǔ)例句
1. Chris unhooked the shutters and went out on the balcony.
克里斯拉開(kāi)百葉窗，走到了陽(yáng)臺(tái)上。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
2. There were glass doors leading on to this balcony.
有玻璃門通到這個(gè)陽(yáng)臺(tái)。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
3. She led us to a room with a balcony overlooking the harbour.