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The Barbican is a huge group of buildings in central London. Inside there are two theatres, two cinemas, a concert hall, an art gallery, restaurants, and shops. People go there for plays, music, film, and art. It is not a small hall — it feels more like a little concrete town. When someone in Britain says they are going to the Barbican, they almost always mean this arts centre. Though actually, barbican is also an old word for a strong tower by a castle gate; the London place took that old name. As a place name it needs a capital B.
巴比肯（倫敦那座大型藝術中心）
組成From Old French barbacane. Where that French word came from is not certain; people have compared it to Arabic barbaḵ (a water channel) and Persian bâb-xâne (a gatehouse).
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Barbicanname
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A neighbourhood in Plymouth, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX4854).
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A neighbourhood and residential estate in the City of London, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3281)
barbicannoun/ˈbɑːbɪkən/
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A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town.
- Near-synonym: guardhouse
- The stone part of the drawbridge with its barbican and the bartizans of the gatehouse are in good repair. […] There was a large hidden trapdoor in the floor of the barbican, which would let them into the moat after all.
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A fortress at the end of a bridge.
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An opening in the wall of a fortress through which the guns are levelled; a narrow loophole through which arrows and other missiles may be shot.
- Two shafts of soft daylight fell across the flagged floor from the high barbacans.
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A temporary wooden tower built for defensive purposes.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。