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quay

/kee, key, kwey/US // ki, keɪ, kweɪ //UK // (kiː) //

码头,船坞

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a landing place, especially one of solid masonry, constructed along the edge of a body of water; wharf.

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Examples

  • As Chan’s co-presenter, Quay, put it in his presentation, which covered similar ground, no “innocent” virologist would commit such oversights.

  • Steve Garth, who works in Circular Quay, was inside the Cartier jewelry store near the café when the siege began.

  • The Mob ran wild, using the local Teamsters to run casinos in Las Vegas and bombing buildings along the River Quay.

  • On my last day but one I crossed to the Giudecca and ran into him on the quay.

  • In 1634 he also prohibited the landing of tobacco any where except at the quay near the custom house in London.

  • It also authorised the construction and maintenance, as p. 150part of such railways, of any pier, quay or jetty.

  • When Skipper Worse reached the market quay he met with a sad disappointment.

  • In 1821 and the years following, one of them ran a little shop on the quay des Grands-Augustins, and purchased Lousteau's books.

  • The destroyers were still coaling, and a small cargo was being taken off the boat at the quay.