Avenue
['æv(ə)njuː] or ['ævənu]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a line of approach; 'they explored every avenue they could think of'; 'it promises to open new avenues to understanding'.
(noun.) a wide street or thoroughfare.
伊诺克校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may by reached; a way of approach or of exit.
(n.) The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered.
(n.) A broad street; as, the Fifth Avenue in New York.
手打:默文
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Passage, entrance, entry, access, way of approach, passage-way.[2]. Alley, walk, street, road, path.[3]. Channel, route, way, pass.
手打:尼尔
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Approach, adit, access, entrance
ANT:Exit, egress
錄入:索尔
解釋/意思:
n. the principal approach to a country-house usually bordered by trees: a double row of trees with or without a road: a wide and handsome street with or without trees esp. in America: any passage or entrance into a place: (fig.) means of access or attainment.
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例句/造句/用法:
- By no means, Alexandros; for by so doing we would close up the only avenue of escape left to us. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- I wonder, he said to himself, pausing for a moment in the shadowy avenue,—I wonder if my uncle is still alive. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- She reached Fifth Avenue and began to walk slowly northward. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in Serpentine Avenue. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Oh, I thought you came back by the avenue. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- But Miss Bertram thought it most becoming to reply-- The avenue! 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- There was naught to do other than seek a new avenue of escape. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- Not that the family would admit that: they think Fifth Avenue is Heaven with the rue de la Paix thrown in. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- I was up at 65 Fifth Avenue one afternoon. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- By St Dunstan, said Gurth, as he stumbled up the dark avenue, this is no Jewess, but an angel from heaven! 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The avenue, therefore, must be at the back of it. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Archer had the nocturnal perspective of Fifth Avenue almost to himself. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- The first few months I was with Edison he spent most of the time in the office at 65 Fifth Avenue. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- I fear so; unless— Here Justinian paused abruptly, and walked rapidly along the mulberry avenue, in which they were now. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- But instead of narrowing the scope of politics, to avoid it, the only sensible thing to do is to invent methods which will allow needs and problems and group interests avenues into politics. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The avenues and plazas of Helium were filled with people. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- The bridge is divided into five avenues: one central one for foot passengers, two outer ones for vehicles, and the others for the street cars. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Memory, observation, reading, communication, are all avenues for supplying data. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The statues are all large; the palace is grand; the park covers a fair-sized county; the avenues are interminable. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- I expect several persons to call to-day, and it will be inconvenient to have the avenues to the house crowded. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Mists hide in the avenues, veil the points of view, and move in funeral-wise across the rising grounds. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- From it two avenues of stones, each a mile and a half long, ran west and south on either side of Silbury Hill. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- But suppose that politics were made responsive--suppose that the forces of the community found avenues of expression into public life. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Of course we drove in the Bois de Boulogne, that limitless park, with its forests, its lakes, its cascades, and its broad avenues. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Houses in twos and threes pass by us, solitary farms, ruinous buildings, dye-works, tanneries, and the like, open country, avenues of leafless trees. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- The fountains, gardens, walks, avenues, and groves, were all disposed with exact judgment and taste. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- The trees in no two avenues are shaped alike, and consequently the eye is not fatigued with anything in the nature of monotonous uniformity. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Safe I passed down the avenues--safe I mixed with the crowd where it was deepeSt. To be still was not in my power, nor quietly to observe. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- On the evening before our departure I saw them approaching along one of the great avenues which lead into the plaza from the east. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
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