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Kimbell Art Museum

A peaceful moment under the overhanging eaves of the Piano Pavilion

Surrounded by elms and red oaks, Renzo Piano’s colonnaded pavilion stands as an expression of simplicity and lightness.

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NASA







Snapshot: Above, a selfie by the astronaut Christina Koch in October. She is back on Earth after completing three all-female spacewalks and setting a record for time in space. We looked at an even broader range of her accomplishments.






Imagine you're floating in space and suddenly there's water in your helmet. That's what happened to this astronaut:

Astronauts finish 5-hour spacewalk despite water found in helmet

Astronauts on the International Space Station complete a spacewalk...

CNN.COM|由 KIMBERLY HUTCHERSON AND RALPH ELLIS, CNN 上傳

Astronauts install porch on space station
Reuters - USA In four additional spacewalks scheduled for the mission, astronauts will work on an equipment cart and prepare a docking port for Japan's new cargo ship, ...

colonnade

/ˌkɒləˈneɪd/

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noun

1. a row of evenly spaced columns supporting a roof, an entablature, or arches.

   Similar:

   row of columns

   peristyle

   portico

   arcade

   loggia

   covered walk

   gallery

   cloisters

   stoa

   • a row of trees or other tall objects.

porch 

Pronunciation: /pɔːtʃ/ 

NOUN  門廊

1A covered shelter projecting in front of the entrance of a building:the north porch of Hereford Cathedral

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1.1North American A veranda:Daniel and Lydia sat out on the porch for many hours

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Derivatives

porched

ADJECTIVE

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porchless

ADJECTIVE

Origin

Middle English: from Old French porche, from Latin porticus 'colonnade', from porta'passage'.

[名詞]

1. 1
2. (1)ポーチ，張り出し玄関：建物の戸口に続く屋根付きの部分.
3. (2)((英)) 教会の袖廊しゅうろう.
4. 2((米)) =veranda 1.
5. 3((the P-))
6. (1)アテネの講堂：Zenon が弟子に講義した列柱廊(stoa).
7. (2)ストア学派［哲学］.
8. 4((廃)) =portico 1.
9. 5((米俗)) 出た腹.

語源

c1300

mediaeval term of " Parvis," which was often in later times attached to the square or " place " immediately lying under the shadow of the chief entrance ...

Architecture: parvis

1. The open square in front of a large church.
2. An enclosed court or room in front of a church.
3. A room over a church porch, 1.

n.

1. An enclosed courtyard or space at the entrance to a building, especially a cathedral, that is sometimes surrounded by porticoes or colonnades.
2. One of the porticoes or colonnades surrounding such a space.

[Middle English, from Old French, alteration of pareis, paradise, from Late Latin paradīsus, garden, paradise. See paradise.]

astronaut (ăs'trə-nôt')

n.
A person trained to pilot, navigate, or otherwise participate as a crew member of a spacecraft.

[ASTRO- + Greek nautēs, sailor (from naus, ship).]