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.
实用例句
1. Chris unhooked the shutters and went out on the balcony.
克里斯拉开百叶窗，走到了阳台上。来自柯林斯例句
2. There were glass doors leading on to this balcony.
有玻璃门通到这个阳台。来自柯林斯例句
3. She led us to a room with a balcony overlooking the harbour.
她把我们领进了一个带阳台的房间，从那里可以俯瞰海港。来自柯林斯例句
4. Vivid red and pink geraniums cascade over my balcony.
