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A patio is a flat, hard area next to a house where people sit outside — stone, brick, tiles, or concrete, with chairs and maybe a table. It is not the garden (which is soil and plants), and it is not a balcony (which hangs off an upper floor). In British English especially, the patio is often that paved bit just behind the back door. The word came into English from Spanish, and it still feels a little like a house-and-garden word rather than a grand architectural one. People stretch it a little for any outdoor sitting pad by a café, but the home meaning is the one to learn first.
露臺、屋外的石砌座位區（多半在一樓地面，和樓上的「陽台」不一樣）
組成From Spanish patio. Two origins are offered: from Late Latin pactus, from Latin pactum ('pact, agreement') — in that telling it would be a doublet of English pact — or from Latin patere, 'to lie open'. I would not treat either as settled.
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。
pationoun/ˈpæt.i.əʊ/
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A paved outside area, adjoining a house, used for dining or recreation.
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An inner courtyard typical of traditional houses in some regions of Spain.
- The flat looks out on a patio on one side and a churro café on the other.
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。