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Passageways
The Inca walls were designed to help protect against a collapse during an earthquake. Doors and windows were built in trapezoidal shapes and tilted inward from the bottom to top.

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CAIRO — It was a few minutes after midnight on Sunday, when an unaccustomed rain washed Cairo’s somnolent streets, as Ahmed Abdel-Moneim walked with friends across a bridge that was a passageway to a parallel capital in Tahrir Square, an idea as much as a place.

 羅蘭巴特論羅蘭巴特》談契約，說法真天才：

…Thus the discourse of contract eludes two plenitudes: it permits the observing the golden rule of any habituation, discerned in Shikidai* passageway : no will-to-seize yet no oblation.

*しきだい ₀ 【式台/敷台】 我的大陸翻譯本搞錯啦！

(1)玄関の上がり口にある一段低くなった板敷きの部分。客を送り迎えする所。もとは武家の住宅で、玄関の次にある、客に送迎の挨拶 (あいさつ) をするための部屋。

我終於了解以前日式房間的一重要 "地方"

passageway

Syllabification: (pas·sage·way)

Pronunciation: /ˈpasijˌwā/

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noun

a long, narrow way, typically having walls on either side, that allows access between buildings or to different rooms within a building.

somnolent

(sŏm'nə-lənt)
adj.

1. Drowsy; sleepy.
2. Inducing or tending to induce sleep; soporific.

[Middle English sompnolent, from Old French, from Latin somnolentus : somnus, sleep + -olentus, abounding in.]

somnolently som'no·lent·ly adv.

trapezoidzoidal[trap・e・zoidzoidal] [形]《幾何学》台形の.

oblation

Syllabification: (ob·la·tion)

Pronunciation: /əˈblāSHən/

noun

• a thing presented or offered to God or a god.
• Christian Church the presentation of bread and wine to God in the Eucharist.

Derivatives

oblational

Pronunciation: /-SHənl, -SHnəl/

adjective

oblatory

Pronunciation: /ˈäbləˌtôrē/

adjective

Origin:

late Middle English: from Old French, or from late Latin oblatio(n-), from Latin offerre 'to offer'