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Help ! I am translating an novel. There is a word 'Landing' I don't know the exact Chinese meaning. In the novel 'Landing' is a part of the building in a prison.If you know ,please tell me .Thank a lot!

Your heading made me think that you were talking about "landing in prison," that you had done something wrong and wre sent to prison as a result.

"The landing" in a house is a sort of half corridor on a floor which is seperated from a staircase by a banister and overlooks the staircase. A banister is a low wall that doesn't go all the way up to the ceiling and stops people falling down a stairwell or directly onto the floor below.

In a prison "a landing" might continue beyond the stairs but again it would have a banister (and presumably also netting.)

Depending on what kind of prison you are talking about, it could also mean the place where goods are on or off loaded from ship to land. Alcatraz has one.

If you think about those prisons with cells on various floors around an open space that can be looked down on from the walkway in front of the cells, then a landing is a whole floor or, if inaccessible from the other, "half a floor" ie both a set of cells and the minimum administrative unit (there are "landing officers") Much clearer than my ramblings is

www.niprisonservice.gov.uk/Gallery_Imag ... 2&Cat_Id=1

JuanTwoThree wrote:If you think about those prisons with cells on various floors around an open space that can be looked down on from the walkway in front of the cells, then a landing is a whole floor or, if inaccessible from the other, "half a floor" ie both a set of cells and the minimum administrative unit (there are "landing officers") Much clearer than my ramblings is

www.niprisonservice.gov.uk/Gallery_Imag ... 2&Cat_Id=1

Thank you so much .The pictures you offered are very clear.