portside
/pawrt-sahyd, pohrt-/US // ˈpɔrtˌsaɪd, ˈpoʊrt- //
港口岸边,港口边,港口,港口地区
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- : on a waterfront or near a port.
- : Nautical. on the port side of a vessel.
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They say by opening a new oceanbound shipping route, there will be fewer trucks rolling through portside neighborhoods that have been grappling with asthma-inducing air pollution for decades.
Another air pollution threat lurks over the San Diego Bay’s industrial portside neighborhoods.
In every round little window gleamed a face,—for a moment only along the portside.
The note was addressed to one Captain Harris, at a tavern on the portside.
Instead he ran the other way, through the portside door of the library.
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