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单词 the yard
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the Yard
e. the Yard, short for ‘Scotland Yard’, the chief London police office.
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society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > police office or station > specific
Scotland Yard1830
the Yard1888
1888 A. C. Gunter Mr. Potter xviii. 221 They're tired of paying your old master's salary up at the Yard.
1904 J. Sweeney At Scotland Yard ii W. E. Monro..was one of the greatest public servants who ever worked at the Yard.
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the Yard
f. U.S. A college campus or the area enclosed by its main buildings; spec. at Harvard: the Yard, the quadrangle formed by the original college buildings.
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society > education > place of education > educational buildings > [noun] > college or university buildings > area of
yard1637
campus1774
1637–9 Harvard Coll. Rec. in Publ. Colonial Soc. Mass. (1925) 15 172 Mr Nathaniel Eatons Account... The frame in the Colledge Yard & digging the cellar.
1841 Harvard Faculty Orders & Regul. 6 Collecting in groups round the doors of the College buildings or in the yard [shall be considered a violation of decorum].
1871 L. H. Bagg Four Years at Yale 27 Besides the fourteen buildings already described, the only others within the yard..were the two wooden dwelling-houses.
1902 Boston Evening Record 18 Mar. 8/4 (heading) Out of the ‘Yard’—how the Harvard students have gone to the ‘Gold Coast’.
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §829.12 Campus, camp, orchard,..yard.
1947 Harvard Alumni Bull. 12 Apr. 586/2 Few people have likely ever thought of the Yard as a bird sanctuary... What of the Yard? There must be bird records.
1970 ‘E. Queen’ Last Woman iii. 163 I found out the truth about myself in my freshman year at Harvard... There was an episode in a bar, well away from the Yard.
1981 ‘D. Jordan’ Double Red xv. 71 Stumbling across the Yard..after too much Harvard Provision Co. gin.
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