单词 | pavement |
释义 | Related topics: Roads, Constructionpave·ment /ˈpeɪvmənt/ ●●○ noun 1 [countable] British EnglishTTR a hard level surface or path at the side of a road for people to walk on 人行道 SYN American English sidewalk A small group of journalists waited on the pavement outside her house. 有一小群记者守候在她家外面的人行道上。 a pavement café 路边咖啡馆 →4 See picture on 见图 Page A13 Town 城镇2 [uncountable] American EnglishTTR the hard surface of a road 路面 As she fell off the bike, her head hit the pavement. 她从自行车上摔下来,头部撞在了路面上。3. [countable, uncountable]TBCCS any paved surface or area 铺过的表面[地方] SYN paving4 pound/hit the pavement to work very hard to get something, especially a job, by going to a lot of different places 〔尤指为找工作等而〕四处奔走 He spent the next six months pounding the pavement in search of a job. 接下来的六个月他为了找工作而四处奔走。Examples from the Corpuspavement• Other measures can include chicanes, pavement extensions and road narrowings.• He sat in the place that Maidstone had suggested, at a table at the end of the café's pavement area.• The saint's remains are buried beneath the pavement of a little chapel.• It washes over the low roofs of the two-storey terraces and dries the dirt on the pavements.• We sat down on the pavement near our bundles while my father went to look for the center.• What annoys me is that everyone parks on the pavement in front of our house.• The pavements glistened beneath the yellow lamplight.• Despite these problems, two-thirds of the children consider the residential street to be safer than the customary street with pavement.pave·ment nounChineseSyllable surface path hard level a or Corpus |
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