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A porch is a covered area attached to the front, or sometimes back, of a house, usually with a roof but open or partly open on the sides - people sit there, put chairs, or leave their shoes. It's the space right outside the front door, before you actually go inside.
門廊
組成Comes from an old French word 'porche,' related to a Latin word for a covered walkway with columns.
原始詞典資料5 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。
Porchname
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A surname.
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The Stoic philosophy (after the public porch on the agora of Athens where Zeno taught).
porchnoun/pɔːtʃ/
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architectureA covered entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof. A porch often has chair(s), table(s) and swings.
- He sat on his porch, waiting for his friend to come over.
- But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud,[…]. We began to tell her about Mohair and the cotillon, and of our point of observation from the Florentine galleried porch, and she insisted she would join us there.
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A portico; a covered walk.
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The platform outside the external hatch of a spacecraft.
- By the time he had put on the backpack, McDivitt was ready to let him do more—to stand on the porch at least.
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。