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avenue

/av-uh-nyoo, -noo/US // ˈæv əˌnyu, -ˌnu //UK // (ˈævɪˌnjuː) //

大道,大街,林荫道,大路

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a wide street or main thoroughfare.
    • : a means of access or attainment: avenues of escape; avenues to greater power.
    • : a way or means of entering into or approaching a place: the various avenues to India.
    • : Chiefly British. a wide, usually tree-lined road, path, driveway, etc., through grounds to a country house or monumental building.a suburban, usually tree-lined residential street.

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Examples

  • You hurry out of the neighborhood, across the avenue that divides one section of town from another, relieved when you reach home.

  • There are other avenues in biotechnology beyond gene editing that may help reduce the cattle industry’s footprint.

  • So mathematicians hoped that Bateman and Katz’s breakthrough might offer an avenue into proving the Erdős conjecture, especially when combined with other recent advances.

  • The Coronado City Council could decide this month whether to pursue a legal challenge, and the best avenue to do so.

  • Economists have long pointed to home-ownership as a major avenue for building family wealth.

  • The police learned that Kemp worked in a grocery on Decatur Avenue.

  • They were looping back around and coming down Tiebout Avenue when they spotted two figures.

  • He then escaped from his detention and arrived on Tverskaya Avenue to join his supporters.

  • In the mid-afternoon, Ramos and Liu were parked on Tomkins Avenue on a meal break.

  • And the bells chimed for victory at 1211 Avenue of the Americas.

  • He left the arabyieh at the western entrance and went on foot down the avenue of headless rams.

  • Aristide was young, he loved flirtation, and flirtation flourished in the Avenue des Plantanes.

  • The stout brigadier grunted an assent and rolled monumentally down the Avenue.

  • He walked briskly down the avenue, and Hedges stood looking after him, slightly puzzled in his mind.

  • They joined in bands of youths and maidens and whirled down the Avenue in Bacchic madness.