Pavement
['peɪvm(ə)nt] or ['pevmənt]
解釋/意思:
(n.) That with which anythingis paved; a floor or covering of solid material, laid so as to make a hard and convenient surface for travel; a paved road or sidewalk; a decorative interior floor of tiles or colored bricks.
(v. t.) To furnish with a pavement; to pave.
校對:维托
例句/造句/用法:
- The carriage was ready: they were bringing it round to the front, and my master was pacing the pavement, Pilot following him backwards and forwards. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer passengers than usual. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- He now stepped up to where Mr. Lorry and Mr. Darnay stood upon the pavement. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had hurried by. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire de coeur. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- I find on this pavement that wanderer-wooing summer night of which I mused; I see its moon over me; I feel its dew in the air. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- But when I sat in the carriage just now and saw you coming along the pavement, I reproached myself. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- He landed me on the pavement. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- When I called on you in the counting-house, when I walked with you on the pavement, did you think I loved you then? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Caliphronas, with a sudden outburst of rage, tore the flower from his breast, flung it on the pavement, and walked out of the court without a word. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- The dull, rumbling sound of wheels was heard on the pavement in the yard. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The broad pavement in front shone pale also; it gleamed as if some spell had transformed the dark granite to glistering Parian. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- We rushed along the pavement, bare-headed as we were, and at the far corner we found a policeman standing. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- I mean that of washing the pavement before the doors every Saturday evening. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- No need to listen for doors opening--to fancy steps on the pavement or the gravel-walk! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- There was a jaded aspect on the business lanes and courts, and the very pavements had a weary appearance, confused by the tread of a million of feet. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The burden fell into a strain or tune as he stumped along the pavements. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Far below me lay the brilliantly lighted streets, the hard pavements, and death. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- Neat, smooth, hard, beautiful pavements are now taking the place everywhere of the unsatisfactory gravel, wood, and brick pavements of former days. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- And yet he did care something for the streets that environed that house, and for the senseless stones that made their pavements. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Municipal improvements were undertaken in Panama and Colon and the various settlements in the Canal Zone, such as the construction of reservoirs, pavements and a system of modern roads. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- More clattering upon the pavements. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- The air was full of the sound of criers and of people talking, thick streams of people moved on the pavements towards the solid crowd of the market. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- A group of loafers upon the pavements, all staring up at a particular window, directed me to the house which I had come to see. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- The pavements, the roads, and the bridges are all government work. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Often householders must relay their pavements and walks because of the damage done by freezing water. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
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