- 1
When something is cantilevered, a long piece of metal or wood sticks out from a wall or an upright post and holds it up. The far end has nothing under it: it hangs in the air. A shelf with no legs, a balcony that looks as if it floats, or the end of a bridge can be built this way. The hidden is that strong piece (a cantilever) fixed into the wall or post, so the weight does not need a second leg underneath. Builders like this because it leaves the space below empty — no extra posts in the way. You will meet the word in talk about buildings, bridges, and design. It sounds a little technical, but newspapers use it for balconies, roofs, and seats that hang out over open air. Though actually, on a big bridge the far end may later sit on a support; the idea is still that the beam carries the weight from one side.
懸臂式的；懸挑的
組成cantilever (the beam that sticks out, held at one end) + -ed (built that way).
同家族的字
- cantileverthe noun for the sticking-out beam itself; cantilevered is the -ed form
原始詞典資料2 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。
cantileveredadj/ˈkæntɪˌlivə(ɹ)d/
- 1
Fitted with, or constituting, a cantilever; projecting out laterally from a wall or similar support and thus hanging without other supports.
- The cantilevered shelf of crumbling concrete where my mother sits has been declared unsafe.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。