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courtyard

/kawrt-yahrd, kohrt-/US // ˈkɔrtˌyɑrd, ˈkoʊrt- //UK // (ˈkɔːtˌjɑːd) //

院子,庭院,院子里,院子里的人

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a court open to the sky, especially one enclosed on all four sides.

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Examples

  • I’ve also met a porter in our apartment complex who every night at 7 for months sprinted around our central courtyard carrying aloft an American flag.

  • Less than a mile away, more than 200 people gathered to watch the game in an apartment building’s courtyard.

  • The presidential debate will take place in the Samson Pavilion, which features a massive steel roof and soaring 80-foot-high indoor courtyard.

  • We have previously, for example, written about why the city may have done lease-to-own deals for this building and a previous, eerily similar one, Civic Center Plaza, which is right across the courtyard from City Hall.

  • Through a tiny window, I saw people stripped naked in the courtyard.

  • After our helicopter crashed in the courtyard, Jimbo and I rushed inside the house.

  • She slow-motion jogs through the courtyard, paints his portrait, and carves his name into a tree.

  • I entered the metal gates to an open courtyard full of inmates eagerly waiting for their own visitors.

  • I was there at one of the first gigs by Julian Casablancas and the Voidz at SXSW, in Cedar Street Courtyard.

  • Pivoting on his heels, he casually strolled out toward a nearby walled courtyard.

  • The building, which has five storeys, stands on three sides of a square courtyard, and faces into Edmund Street.

  • They found the village inn to be a series of low, small buildings built on three sides of a courtyard.

  • Outside in the courtyard the fire was kept burning, beside which two watchmen sat all night smoking and telling stories.

  • A favorite of king and courtier, its use was alike common in the palace and the courtyard.

  • One side of the courtyard blazed in sunshine, the other lay cool and grey in shadow.