skylight, illumination, the maw of China's security state

Daunt Books is an original Edwardian bookshop with long oak galleries and graceful skylights situated in Marylebone High Street, London. We also have shops in Chelsea, Holland Park, Cheapside, Hampstead and Belsize Park.

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  Daunt Books Marylebone

  Daunt Books, 
  83 Marylebone High Street, 
  London W1U 4QW. 
  United Kingdom.
  
  Telephone: 020 7224 2295 
  Email: orders@dauntbooks.co.uk

  Opening hours:
  Monday - Saturday 9.00 - 19.30
  Sunday 11.00 - 18.00

When Texas entrepreneur Raymond Nasher asked for a "roofless museum" for his extensive sculpture collection, his architects and their consultants delivered a unique interpretation. The Nasher Sculpture Center, which opened in downtown Dallas in 2003, is a synthesis of nature and building: a sculpture garden and a building with a roof that's "open" to the light of the sky.

Because the new museum is intended exclusively for sculpture, the designers were not as limited in their treatment of illumination as they would have been for light-sensitive paintings.
 Skylighting Sculpture by ArchitectureWeek

We went up-stairs it had been quite a fine house once,
when it was anybody's business to keep it clean and fresh,
and nobody's business to smoke in it all day and into Mr.
Turveydrop's great room, which was built out into a maws
at the back and was lighted by a skylight.

maw (maw)

noun:
1. The mouth, throat, or stomach of an animal, especially a carnivore.
2. A gaping hole.

Etymology
From Old English maga. Earliest documented use: 1150.

Usage
"Xiaobo Liu's wife said the toughest time for her was after he was arrested in 2008 but before he was indicted. He basically disappeared, she said, into the maw of China's security state." — John Pomfret; China's Liu Xiaobo wins Nobel Peace Prize; The Washington Post; Oct 8, 2010.

2009年6月6日星期六

We went up-stairs it had been quite a fine house once,
when it was anybody's business to keep it clean and fresh,
and nobody's business to smoke in it all day and into Mr.
Turveydrop's great room, which was built out into a maws
at the back and was lighted by a skylight.

maws
馬廄

maw
n.

1. The mouth, stomach, jaws, or gullet of a voracious animal, especially a carnivore.
2. The opening into something felt to be insatiable: “I saw the opening maw of hell” (Herman Melville).

[Middle English mawe, from Old English maga.]

n. - 反芻動物的第四胃, 人的胃, 嗉囊

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 反芻動物の第四胃, 餌袋, 口, 食道, かあさん

skylight

 A window set in a roof or ceiling at the same angle.

音節

ský • lìght

skylightの変化形

skylights (複数形)

[名]

1 天窓.

2 《気象》天空光.

illumination

音節

il • lu • mi • na • tion

発音

ilùːmənéiʃən

レベル

社会人必須

illuminationの変化形

illuminations (複数形)

[名]

1 [U]明るくすること, 照明；照らされていること［状態］；((通例〜s))((主に英))イルミネーション, 電飾

stage illumination
舞台照明

indirect illumination
間接照明

the brilliant illumination of the room
部屋のまばゆい照明.

2 [U]啓蒙(けいもう), 啓示, 解明, 説明

search for spiritual illumination
魂の救済を求める.

3 《光学》照度：単位面積に当たる光の量；ルクス(lux)で表す.

4 ((通例〜s))（頭文字・ページ・写本の絵の具・金泥による）彩飾.