| 词汇 | driveway |
| 释义 | driveway noun[ C ] uk /ˈdraɪv.weɪ/ us /ˈdraɪv.weɪ/(also mainly UKdrive) a private area in front of a house or other building onto which you can drive and park your car: （住宅通往大路的）私人车道 We heard tyres coming down the gravel driveway. in the drivewayA red van was parked in the driveway in front of the garage. on the drivewayThere was deep snow on the driveway. Mint Images/Mint Images RF/GettyImages She pulled into the driveway of her home. Trees lined the driveway leading to the villa. Access to the courthouse is from the western driveway of the building. On the road: parking bike rack block something/someone in car park carport clamp drive garage multistorey non-moving off-street P, p parking parking garage parking lot parking meter parking policeman pay station repark traffic warden valet parking You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Roads: urban & residential streets From the driveway a gravelled footpath led through the shrubbery and flower garden by a wicket gate to the Church. In silence they went down the driveway to the beach road, along the path to the cliffs. The Dean's desk stood in a wide square bay window which overlooked the driveway. There was a driveway from this court into the street beyond. They too heard the noise and saw a small ancient roadster turn into the driveway and stop. driveway | American Dictionarydriveway noun[ C ] us/ˈdrɑɪvˌweɪ/ a short private road that leads from a street to a person’s house or garage (= building where a car is kept) Examples of drivewaydriveway The first impression of the building from the meandering driveway is a strange shiny object hardly visible behind the trees. The barn is cellared, with a raised driveway slightly higher than the yard accessed by a gentle ramp at both ends. He can hardly get it out of the driveway! This driveway originally overlooked the main floor of the barn, which was at a lower level cut into the lakeshore. A wooden partition divides the garden, with parallel driveways and gates to the house. The gravel driveway leads into and through the maze of chambers that constitutes the quarry. Both elevationally and experientially it still remained as a controlling device, but from merely being the destination for a driveway, it had been pressed into a more processional movement pattern. He just, like, they would come in, and he'd just back up all the way into the driveway, which he didn't have to, and then he, he took off. What we seem to have here is one, not two, numerically distinct lawnmowers, despite the fact that the lawnmower is ' corrupted' when its parts are strewn across my driveway. People may find difficulty in driving their cars from their garages along a short driveway to the main road. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 When people were so snarled up that they could not get their cars out of their driveway, they would go on the tube. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is a single-lane road, with no footpaths and no turning spaces, other than those of the residents' own driveways. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are houses in my constituency where the driveway is 12½ ft. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Local residents have not been able to park outside their homes and have often not been able to get into their driveways. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Items of repair undertaken include repairs to the roof, repairs and replacement of doors and windows and essential repairs to the driveway. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of driveway These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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