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playground

/pley-ground/US // ˈpleɪˌgraʊnd //UK // (ˈpleɪˌɡraʊnd) //

游乐场,游艺场,游乐园,游乐场上

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an area used for outdoor play or recreation, especially by children, and often containing recreational equipment such as slides and swings.
    • : Informal. any place, environment, or facility used for recreation or amusement, as a resort: The tropical island is an international playground for the rich.
    • : an arena of operation or activity.

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Examples

  • Current regulations reflect those biases and mandate that dispensaries locate at least 1,000 feet from “sensitive” areas such as residences, schools, churches, libraries, parks and playgrounds.

  • Drive an hour northeast to the Brian Head Resort, which spent two years turning the mountain into a world-class lift-served playground.

  • Having set up the perfect playground to create, combine and measure vortices and their helicity, Irvine and Matsuzawa four years ago started exploring new variations on the theme.

  • Fancified caution tape criss-crossing benches and playgrounds that are not considered safe to use.

  • The results so far suggest that there are ways to subtly nudge children into being more active on playgrounds.

  • And in the summer months, when shootings soar, the city can be a ghoulish playground for those interested in the macabre.

  • It was just the anonymous artist and his group of pranksters using New York as their unofficial playground.

  • A personal favorite is “C Is For Cookie” for guiding me through a 1994 playground debate over how to spell the word.

  • She toddled off to the playground, still jabbering to herself, evoking giggles from the Hawa staff.

  • Before we are introduced to Singer and her daughter, the program takes us to a playground in San Francisco.

  • Dinner was over; the boys rushed into the playground; neither the yeast dumplings nor the salt beef stuck in their throats.

  • The afternoon was drawing on; they all hurried out into the playground, having got hold of every hoop to be found.

  • It was afternoon; the boys were playing at different games in the green playground, and he was waiting for his turn at rounders.

  • The boys in the playground came crowding round, and Barker in vain struggled to escape.

  • He pushed fiercely through the knot of boys, and strode as quickly as he could along the playground, angry and impenitent.