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.
雙語例句
1. Chris unhooked the shutters and went out on the balcony.
克里斯拉開百葉窗，走到了陽臺上。
來自柯林斯例句
2. There were glass doors leading on to this balcony.
有玻璃門通到這個陽臺。
來自柯林斯例句
3. She led us to a room with a balcony overlooking the harbour.
她把我們領進了一個帶陽臺的房間，從那里可以俯瞰海港。
來自柯林斯例句
4. Vivid red and pink geraniums cascade over my balcony.