英:[peɪv]
美:[peɪv]
英:[peɪv]
美:[peɪv]
第三人称单数:paves
现在分词:paving
过去式:paved
过去分词:paved
paver (n.)
词根:pave
n.paving [建] 铺砌;铺路材料;块石面路
pavage 铺路;铺设;铺路税
v.paving 铺设;为…做准备(pave的ing形式)
verb
transitive verb
to lay or cover with material (such as asphalt or concrete) that forms a firm level surface for travel
to cover firmly and solidly as if with paving material
to serve as a covering or pavement of
adjective
set as close together as possible to conceal a metal base
pave the way for为…做好准备;为…铺平道路
pave the way为...作准备;为...铺平道路
paved with good intentions充满着善意的
14世纪初, paven,“用石块、瓦片或类似的坚硬材料覆盖(一条街道),并将其有规律地牢固安放在原位”,源自古法语 paver “铺设”(12世纪),可能是从古法语 pavement 中的一个反构词,或者来自俗拉丁语 *pavare,源自拉丁语 pavire “敲打,夯实,踩踏”,源自 PIE 词根 *pau-(2)“切割,打击,盖章”。相关词汇: Paved; paving。1580年代开始出现了“使平滑或容易”(在 pave the way “为某事物铺平道路”)的比喻意义。
Verb Middle English, from Anglo-French paver, from Latin pavire to strike, pound; perhaps akin to Greek paiein to strike Adjectivepavé from French, from past participle of paver to pave
The first known use of pave was in the 14th century
paveverb
to lay or cover with material (as stone or concrete) that forms a firm level surface for travel
paveverb
to lay or cover with material (as stone or concrete) that forms a firm level surface for travel
1 All the foliage was neatly trimmed, in bright, beautiful colors, the roads devoid of even one small weed and paved in fancy yellow brick that began down by the waterfront.
2 “Oh, there’s some talk about paving the streets. But you know Holcomb. Actually, I don’t spend much time there. This is my junior year at K.U.,” she said, meaning the University of Kansas.
3 After enduring too many trips on Highway 3, I was relieved to find that most roads around Havana were paved.
4 If we choose to follow word-for-word, we will never pave our own path to the simpler life we desire.
如果我们选择追随逐字的对译,我们将永难铺设自己的路走向我们愿望中的简单生活。
5 They stopped at the center of camp, where two wide stone- paved roads met at a T. A street sign labeled the road to the main gates as via praetoria.
6 She was silent long enough to count every paving stone.
7 We crossed a creek that fed into the Tug River and started up a barely paved one-lane road called Little Hobart Street.
8 Roads are being paved.
马路正在铺设.
9 Together we trudged down the beach to a paved lot where her Jeep was parked.
10 The light poles and paved roads ascended the hills.
11 I sat down next to him on the edge of the paving and slipped my hand into his.
12 We traveled halfway to Las Pasturas and then left the paved road and turned southward on a dirt road of the llano.
13 They walked across a courtyard paved in white stones, past a fountain shaped like a horse and rider, and toward a grand glass conservatory, lit from within by hanging lanterns.
14 We walk and walk and walk, all down through town and past the graveyard and over the long strips of paved road where mirages shimmer in the sun.
15 I didn’t expect the streets of New York to be paved with gold, but I did expect them to be bright and cheerful, clean, lively.
16 They rode into a grand, circular courtyard, over paving stones set with a mosaic of gold and green in a pattern of swirls.
17 Here was a street paved in lapis lazuli, the carved facades of buildings rising up on either side.
18 The yard was paved with black cinder, and there was no greenery at all except a few gingko trees in postmodern tubs, placed at dramatic intervals.
19 “The end of the runway was approaching fast and the lights on both sides of the paved surface were running out.”
20 A good education will pave the way to finding a decent job.
(好的教育是好的工作的基础. )