Pier
[pɪə] or [pɪr]
解释:
(noun.) a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats.
(noun.) a support for two adjacent bridge spans.
(noun.) (architecture) a vertical supporting structure (as a portion of wall between two doors or windows).
整理:泰勒--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) Any detached mass of masonry, whether insulated or supporting one side of an arch or lintel, as of a bridge; the piece of wall between two openings.
(n.) Any additional or auxiliary mass of masonry used to stiffen a wall. See Buttress.
(n.) A projecting wharf or landing place.
汉克整理
解释:
n. the mass of stone-work between the openings in the wall of a building: an arch bridge &c.: a stone pillar on which the hinges of a gate are fixed: a mass of stone or wood-work projecting into the sea for landing purposes: a wharf.—ns. Pier′age toll paid for using a pier; Pier′-glass a mirror hung in the space between windows; Pier′-tā′ble a table fitted for the space between two windows.
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娱乐性解释：
To stand upon a pier in your dream, denotes that you will be brave in your battle for recognition in prosperity's realm, and that you will be admitted to the highest posts of honor. If you strive to reach a pier and fail, you will lose the distinction you most coveted.
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例句:
- Introduces the next The passengers were landing from the packet on the pier at Calais. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- The figure at the end of the pier had not moved. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- They accepted with alacrity, repaired to the pier, and gained--their share of a drawn battle. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Four arches form each span, each arch consisting of an upper and lower curved member or rib, extending from pier to pier, and each member composed of two parallel steel tubes. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- The signal of an English steamer in sight went fluttering up to the mast on the pier. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Her ladyship had been exceedingly ill in her carriage, and was greatly exhausted and scarcely fit to walk up the plank from the ship to the pier. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- We coasted past the sharp bows of a navy of great steamships and stopped at last at a government building on a stone pier. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- There were no stages out, and we could not get on the pier from the ship. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- The cast-iron pier consists of four octagon columns, 10 feet in diameter. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- The first night the sailors of a British ship, being happy with grog, came down on the pier and challenged our sailors to a free fight. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- They swaggered up and down the almost deserted pier, and hurled curses, obscenity, and stinging sarcasms at our crew. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- On that granite pedestal a cast-iron pier was raised to a height of 100 feet, the level of the roadway of the rails. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- I was taken by Johnson direct from the Inman Steamship pier to 65 Fifth Avenue, and met Edison for the first time. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- The tube, when in position, was lowered down upon its bearings on the pier by opening valves in the pontoons, which thus sunk sufficiently to ease them of their load. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- The length of the large tubes, through which the railway carriages pass, on each side of the central pier, is 460 feet: and the total length from shore to shore, 1,531 feet. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- When all was completed the great staging was removed, and the mighty tube rested alone and secure upon its massive wedge-faced piers rising from the bedrock of the flood below. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- It is to be almost inclosed by massive stone piers, one of which will extend into the sea over three thousand feet in a straight line. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- There are over 50,000 tons of steel in the superstructure, and about 140,000 cubic yards of masonry and concrete in the foundation piers. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Permission could not be obtained to interfere with the navigation of the Straits in the slightest degree during the building, and so piers and arches could not be used. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- He had his foot crushed while laying the foundation of one of the stone piers, and died of lockjaw. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- The height of the bridge above the piers is 330 feet. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- He designed the piers of Leghorn and the custom house regulations of Civita Vecchia. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- To-day her piers are deserted, her warehouses are empty, her merchant fleets are vanished, her armies and her navies are but memories. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- The central portion of the viaduct is supported on four piers, 90 feet above high water mark, with a span in the centre of 250 feet, and on each side of 125 feet. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- There are eight rectangular tubes resting on those piers, to form two lines of railway, each tube being 28 feet high and 14 feet wide, exclusive of the cellular cavities at the top and bottom. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- The total length of the bridge is 910 feet between the centres of the anchorage piers. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Three balanced cantilevers are employed, poised on four gigantic steel tube legs supported on four huge masonry piers. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- It is 984 feet high, and 410 feet across its foundation, and has a supporting base of four independent lattice work piers. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- The suspension towers stand on two piers founded in the river on solid rock at depths of 78 and 45 feet below high water, and they rise 277 feet above the same level. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- It consists of 24 piers, 242 feet apart, except the centre one, from which the span is 330 feet. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
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