| 单词 |
pailou |
| 释义 |
‖ pailou|ˌpaɪˈləʊ|
[Chinese, f. p'ai tablet + lou tower.]
An elaborate Chinese commemorative or ornamental gateway.
1836J. F. Davis Chinese II. xviii. 321 The emperor occasionally orders a pae-low to be erected at the public expense. 1887Chinese Times 1 Oct. 785/2 The homes of the dead, with their p'ailou and carved images of lions, sheep, &c. 1923Blackw. Mag. Jan. 101/2 In front of one of them [sc. temples] stands a white stone pailou, which shines in the sunlight like a flamboyant Stonehenge trilith. 1947Archit. Rev. CII. 13 The p'ailou is a commemorative gateway, set up either to mark a famous place or to serve as a monument to the dead and having three or five openings with double or triple lintels and tiled roofs. 1948R. Alley Gung Ho 28 Under the great pailou framing the main street. 1958W. Willetts Chinese Arts II. viii. 736 This class of monumental stone arch or gateway... Commemorative or triumphal in function... P'ai-lou are almost always built of stone, in close imitation of a wooden prototype and with carpentry technique. They have one, three, or five openings. 1977N.Y. Rev. Bks. 26 May 21/2 The destruction of Peking started in the 1950s, when all the pailous that spanned the main thoroughfares of the old city were eliminated. |
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