| 单词 | downtown |
| 释义 | downtown (daʊntaʊn ) adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] Downtown places are in or towards the centre of a large town or city, where the shops and places of business are. [mainly US] ...an office in downtown Chicago. Downtown is also an adverb. By day he worked downtown for American Standard. You have to be downtown in a hurry. Downtown is also a noun. ...in a large vacant area of the downtown. ...Ardastra Gardens, a short taxi ride from downtown. Collocations: downtown hotel The site was walking distance from my downtown hotel. Smithsonian Downtown hotel room nights are currently booked about 70 per cent of the time, he said. canada.com Many of them spent a chilly night lined up around a downtown hotel to keep their spot. Globe and Mail Studios were in a downtown hotel for many years. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Today, most hotels in the city lie outside of downtown, but there has been a movement to establish another downtown hotel in the hopes of revitalizing the city's core. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 As well as insisting that players carry out community work, they gave the city a vote of confidence in the downtown location of their new stadium. Times, Sunday Times The chain opted for neighborhood stores over a downtown location. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Its current downtown location was built in 1912. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 By 1945, the museum was quickly outgrowing its small downtown location. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In 2010, the store moved to its bigger downtown location. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 How had we gotten to that warm fall afternoon in a downtown office? Christianity Today However, the downtown office market has been losing ground rapidly. Houston Chronicle The heat will come from a pipe system that has supplied heat to downtown office buildings for decades. Globe and Mail And the downtown office vacancy rate at the end of the first quarter was 13 per cent. Globe and Mail Sometimes he had a downtown office at his disposal. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A downtown park comes alive at night as couples and families stroll. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Around 75 people camped in tents, with the group planning to occupy the downtown park indefinitely. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Plans were made, with overwhelming voter support, for a downtown park and aquarium. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 As a first step in formulating a competition program, a survey was distributed to 55,000 businesses and households asking what they envisioned in a downtown park. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They have expressed their preference for performing at all ages shows in unusual venues and situations, including galleries, theaters, loft spaces and downtown parks. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The burden of shovelling falls mainly on downtown residents. Globe and Mail In 2007, a coalition of businesses, social service providers, downtown residents and police launched a campaign urging people to refrain from giving money to panhandlers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 About 265 bags of groceries are delivered weekly to homebound downtown residents. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Downtown residents are known for their civic engagement, as evidenced by more than two dozen active neighborhood associations in the area. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Opponents of expansion argued that increased services would result in greater noise pollution for downtown residents, as well as preventing other economies from flourishing in the waterfront region. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Go to the most modest downtown restaurant and a guy outside will park your car for ten bucks. Times, Sunday Times At the downtown restaurant rows of coneys on the grill are visible to those standing outside on the sidewalk. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It takes the youth to eat at downtown restaurants, instructing them on manners and protocol. Christianity Today While previously open all night, the downtown restaurant began closing at 8 p.m. in 1998 in voluntary compliance with the city's effort to reduce troublesome night spots. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Later, a downtown restaurant was raided by the police because delivery of long stick-like objects was witnessed, but these turned out to be merely promotional umbrellas. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They lived together briefly, experienced the downtown scene together. Times, Sunday Times Looking around the downtown scene, he looks to the sky and witnesses again the illuminated clouds that so inspired him before. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He read everywhere and with almost everyone involved in the downtown scene. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The plan announced yesterday would have an open-air stadium with views of the bay and the downtown skyline. Times, Sunday Times The recent punch-up of condominium towers on the downtown skyline proves nobody's got to have a lawn, and many people don't want one. Globe and Mail Like all those, it offers a panoramic view of the downtown skyline. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The building boom of the 1970s and 1980s produced a distinctive contemporary profile for the downtown skyline, influenced by nationally prominent architects. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The stadium will feature open air concourses and will have impressive views of the downtown skyline from the third base side. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The modern downtown skyscrapers and the glass-and-steel apartments on the waterfront had not been built when he was jailed. Times, Sunday Times Of course, you can pay $25 for a harbour cruise that takes 90 minutes, but why would you when you get exactly the same grand view of the downtown skyscrapers? Times, Sunday Times Thousands of glass panes in downtown skyscrapers were shattered by gravel blown off rooftops. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Some windows blew out of some downtown skyscrapers, and some trees and signals were down. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There was minor damage to many downtown skyscrapers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Other options such as a second downtown station are also being studied to meet future demand. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Each station along every route has been placed in a specific zone based on its distance from its respective downtown station. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Four blocks with a concentration of restaurants, cafes, and shops extend south from the downtown station. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Construction of the new downtown station was expected to begin in 2007 and officials estimated the station would be completed in 2007 or 2008. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 When a fire call was telephoned into the downtown station, the personnel at the substation could listen in on their own extension and respond when necessary. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 However, this expansion was at the expense of the downtown store. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The downtown store closed in 1977 due to declining sales. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Its purpose was to entice shoppers into the downtown store. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Nonetheless, the downtown store would coexist with the mall location for a few years until its closure in 1985. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The two met by chance in a downtown store, and though there was a seventeen-year difference the two quickly fell in love. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In the summer of 2008, the main downtown street was redone. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There were downtown street improvements too, but cost overruns led to several indictments. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The soldier-actors continued out into the downtown street and up the plank to the waiting troop carrier. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It features two landscaped boulevards in a downtown street grid, surrounded by 500,000 sq ft (46,000 m2) of restaurants and a variety of specialty retail stores. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The first face masks were already being worn in the downtown streets. Globe and Mail In the early days the orchestra played in a downtown theatre. Times, Sunday Times In the weeks after, some of them exhibited their plunder at a downtown theatre, while more than 1,500 miles to the east, the federal apparatus ground into motion. The Times Literary Supplement With the roadshow concept, a film would play, often in 70 mm at a movie palace downtown theatre exclusively, sometimes for a year or more. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Because of downtown traffic, it took us thirty minutes to get back to the station. Christianity Today In his two-tone convertible, he tears down the highway and weaves speedily in and out of downtown traffic. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Rush hour or not, downtown traffic has been slowed to a crawl. Houston Chronicle Downtown traffic came to a standstill as ambulances rushed to the scene. Globe and Mail This sit-down blocked downtown traffic during rush hour for three hours during the 1978 municipal election campaign. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 在市中心 Japanese: 繁華街へ |
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