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plaza

/plah-zuh, plaz-uh/US // ˈplɑ zə, ˈplæz ə //UK // (ˈplɑːzə, Spanish ˈplaθa) //

广场,广场上,广场上的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a public square or open space in a city or town.
    • : shopping plaza.
    • : an area along an expressway where public facilities, as service stations and restrooms, are available.

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Examples

  • The normally bustling plazas around the State House were empty.

  • You would be reasonably close, to be able to protest and express your view, but nobody belongs on the Capitol plaza.

  • “They’re not only fighting for major plazas and smuggling routes, but they’re also fighting for corners,” Calderón said.

  • Like a public plaza playground-y, there are kids and people climbing on stuff — but shops, and llama signs.

  • One Saturday, a man from Providence, Rhode Island, stopped her in the plaza and asked for help registering some seniors back in his state.

  • In her struggle to find her daughter, Esther becomes one of the founders of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo.

  • The Plaza Hotel cooked a fancy-pants latke with red wine braised oxtail, horseradish sunchoke cream, and crispy kale.

  • A crate of the stuff arrived at the studio, compliments of the Plaza Athénée.

  • When they do dine, the Hitchcocks sometimes use Limoges china marked “Plaza Athénée.”

  • In August, Trump filed a lawsuit to have his name removed from the casino and from the nearby, since-closed Trump Plaza.

  • This rampart of dwellings was in the shape of a rectangle, and enclosed a large square or plaza containing a noble reservoir.

  • Twenty men and twenty women advanced to the centre of the plaza in double file and faced each other.

  • The Plaza was full of people, women talking under the stiff palms, and men sitting on wicker chairs on the hotel piazza opposite.

  • Meantime the Plaza is being filled with chairs—rocking-chairs—which seem to spring up out of nothing.

  • The Plaza is still the parlor in Guadalajara and it's enchanting!