canopies 天篷(canopy的复数)
[航] 座舱盖(canopy的复数)
雨棚(canopy的复数)
- People can also buy canopies to shelter their plants.
人们还可以购买大棚遮蔽植物。 - Workers have been busy picking up broken branches, some as thick as 15 centimeters. A few trees have lost their canopies.
工人们忙着将断裂的枝叶捡起来,其中一些粗达15公分。一部分树已经失去了树冠。 - Some canopies have narrow strips of metal or wood to provide either sunlight or shade, depending on the position of the sun.
一些大棚使用窄长的金属或木质长条制成,根据太阳的位置,既可以提供日照,也可以提供荫凉。
Canopy \Can"o*py\ (k[a^]n"[-o]*p[y^]), n.; pl. {Canopies}
(-p[i^]z). [OE. canapie, F. canap['e] sofa, OF. conop['e]e,
conopeu, conopieu, canopy, vail, pavilion (cf. It. canop[`e]
canopy, sofa), LL. conopeum a bed with mosquito curtains, fr.
Gr. kwnwpei^on, fr. kw`nwps gnat, kw`nos cone + 'w`ps face.
See {Cone}, and {Optic}.]
1. A covering fixed over a bed, dais, or the like, or carried
on poles over an exalted personage or a sacred object,
etc. chiefly as a mark of honor. ``Golden canopies and
beds of state.'' --Dryden.
2. (Arch.)
(a) An ornamental projection, over a door, window, niche,
etc.
(b) Also, a rooflike covering, supported on pillars over
an altar, a statue, a fountain, etc.