pavement

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Related topics: Roads, Construction

pave·ment /ˈpeɪvmənt/ noun

1 [countableC] British EnglishBrETTR 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

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2 [uncountableU] American EnglishAmETTR 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. [countableC, uncountableU]TBCCS any paved surface or area 铺过的表面[地方] SYN paving

4 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 Corpus

pound/hit the pavement• Or pull out your own wheels and hit the pavement.• It began to rain when she was half way along Gloucester Road, big spots like buttons hitting the pavement.• For months, Garcia pounded the pavement for jobs.• When he's not on the track competing, you will find Paul out pounding the pavements.• And if my next fifteen years are spent pounding the pavement in search of a job without a handset in it - too bad.• The brown paper bag tied with white string hit the pavement, split and corn went all over the place.• He turned and saw a lithe figure in a track suit pounding the pavement towards him.• I wrenched the wheel round in a tight turn, hitting the pavement as I went.

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pavement• 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.

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