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单词	terrace
释义	ter·race I. \ˈterə̇s\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle French terrasse, terrace pile of earth, platform, terrace, from Old Provençal terrassa, from terra earth, from Latin, earth, land, country; akin to Old Irish tīr territory, tīr dry, Latin torrēre to dry, parch — more at thirst 1. a. : a colonnaded porch or promenade : gallery, portico < shops in arcade and along a covered terrace — Architectural Review > b. : a flat roof or open platform : balcony, deck < the dining terrace looks out upon the tumbling, rushing waters — Ford Times > c. : a relatively level paved or planted area adjoining a building and in formal settings often surrounded by a balustrade < the court side … shelters a formal English terrace and garden — American Guide Series: Michigan > 2. a. : a raised embankment with the top leveled for walking b. : a horizontal or gently sloping ridge or offset made in a hillside to conserve moisture or to minimize erosion < built his terraces with a moldboard plow; uses them as guides for his contour rows — Farm Journal > — compare step terrace c. : something that resembles a terrace < the pyramid … had five terraces — E.H.Short > < stood on a status terrace with some below and others above him — John Dollard > 3. a. : a level and ordinarily rather narrow plain usually with a steep front bordering a river, a lake, or the sea : a topographic bench — compare alluvial terrace, kame terrace, marine terrace, rock terrace, stream terrace b. : structural terrace 4. a. : a row of houses or apartments situated on raised ground or a sloping site b. : a group of row houses < street after street exactly alike, lined with … terraces — Talbot Hamlin > c. : median strip d. : street II. verb (-ed/-ing/-s) *transitive verb* 1. : to make into a terrace or supply with terraces < farms long ago terraced by the Inca Indians — Russell Lord > < planted and terraced the … estate — Alva Johnston > 2. : to provide (a building) with a terrace; especially : to design (a structure) with offsets *intransitive verb* : to occupy a terrace < olive trees terracing in steps dug out of rock — Richard Llewellyn > III. adjective 1. : of or relating to a terrace < terrace roof > < terrace farmer > < depositional terrace plains — H.N.Fisk > 2. : having or forming a terrace < terrace apartment > IV. variant of trass
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