2019年4月18日木曜日

buttress 控え壁


buttress 控え壁(名)、控え壁で本壁を補強する(動)。この単語の定義は写真で見たほうが早い。0:21 it's called the flying buttress. ノートルダム寺院の薄い壁を補強するために中世の建築家が編み出した構造を飛梁(とびばり)と言う。

Notre-Dame Cathedral and its flying buttresses and mysterious gothic architecture, 1990

4:14 and the solution were these towers called flying buttresses. 重い屋根でしなる壁を支えるための答えはこれらの小さな塔で、フライング・バットレスと言われる。

The history of France's Notre Dame Cathedral

2:29 these ice shelves buttress the flow of the ice upstream, ice that's flowing into the system. and when you lose that buttressing force, you allow the upstream glaciers to flow faster. 下流の氷河は上流の氷河の流れを抑える働きがある。下流の氷河が溶けて抑える力がなくなれば、上流の氷河の流れが速くなる。

One of the biggest icebergs ever just broke off Antarctica. Here's what scientists want to know.

6:14 Right away when I went to see Madam Tyemeniscka as she refers to herself, in Pomfret, she immediately referred to this correspondence and in fact read me one of the Pope's letters to her as a kind of way of buttressing her claim to being so important in his life. 私がヨハネ・パウロ二世の件でテレサさんの自宅を訪問すると、法王にとって彼女大切な存在だったという彼女の主張を裏付けるためにテレサさんは法王が自分に宛てた手紙を読んでくれました。

Pope John Paul letters tell of friendship with married woman

練習問題解答
b-5113 the flying buttresses