| 释义 |
‖ paepae|ˈpaɪpaɪ|
Also 9 pi-pi. Pl. paepae.
[Native name.]
a. An elevated stone platform on which Polynesian houses were often built.
b. A paved area in front of some Polynesian buildings.
c. A type of raft.
1846H. Melville Typee xxiv. 219 Like all the other edifices of any note, it was raised upon a small pi-pi of stones. 1919Century Mag. Aug. 446/1, I sat..on the palm-shaded paepae of my cabin above the blue lagoon. 1923R. Linton Material Culture of Marquesas Islands 272 Many of the paepae on hill slopes were simple terraces with a trench at the rear to carry off water. Ibid. 273 The perfect paepae contains stones of three sorts. 1927P. H. Buck Material Culture of Cook Islands i. 39 In the well-preserved house site..the cobbled paepae terrace was a foot lower than the house terrace. 1930― Samoan Material Culture 56 When a high paepae platform was made, most of the posts did not reach the ground level. 1958T. Heyerdahl Aku-Aku x. 334, I was the man who had travelled to Raroia with my friends on a pae-pae. 1968N. A. Rowe in T. Heyerdahl Sea Routes to Polynesia 205, I had wondered for many years what this could mean but I see now..that it was a reference to a raft or pae-pae. Pae-pae can also mean stone platform: hence the confusion. 1974T. Heyerdahl Fatu-Hira ii. 88 Here we stumbled upon human vestiges..mostly over⁓grown terrace walls and stone platforms, pae-pae, where native huts had once stood. Ibid. iv. 155 Some paepae had been declared tabu by ancient medicine men and often contained burials and old artifacts. |