| 单词 |
Portal |
| 释义 |
Portal, n.3|ˈpɔətəl|
Name of Lord Portal (1885–1949), Minister of Works and Planning and First Commissioner of Works and Public Buildings 1942–4: Portal house, a steel-framed type of prefabricated house proposed in 1944. Also ellipt.
1944Archit. Rev. Sept. p. lii/1 It is not clear whether the 250,000 [houses] will all be of the Portal (‘Churchill’) design which..is far from perfect of its kind. 1945Ann. Reg. 1944 66 The Government had chosen the so-called Portal house of steel... The model Portal house..had been seen by about 30,000 persons. 1945Punch 16 May 425/1 But my aunt was good for me when I was a child, and will possibly offer me accommodation if I cannot secure a Portal when I go home, so I suppose I must oblige her. 1948A. M. Taylor Lang. World War II (rev. ed.) 158 Portal houses, proposed prefabricated houses for England, so called after Lord Portal, whose ministry was in charge of housing. Punch played up the name in jokes about ‘crossing one's portal’. |
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