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 plaza ['plɑ:zә]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 广场, 市场, 购物区



    plaza
    [ noun ]
    1. a public square with room for pedestrians

    2. <noun.location>
      they met at Elm Plaza
      Grosvenor Place
    3. mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers; usually includes restaurants and a convenient parking area; a modern version of the traditional marketplace

    4. <noun.artifact>
      a good plaza should have a movie house
      they spent their weekends at the local malls


    Plaza \Pla"za\, n. [Sp. See {Place}.]
    A public square in a city or town.

    1. The marchers represented a group of independent unions headed for the main plaza, or Zocalo, as a larger demonstration by pro-government unions was dispersing.
    2. Organizations demanding housing for the homeless made a 20-block march to the Zocalo, the capital's main plaza, where an estimated 12,000 people gathered for a rally.
    3. Lumping the pacific, slow-moving, affectionate sour mugs with the vicious and aggressive American pit bull terrier of deservedly bad repute is somewhat like associating Elsie the milk cow with el toros de la plaza.
    4. Democratic Whip Alan Cranston said in testimony before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee last May: "All parking should be removed from the Capitol plaza; there should be no exceptions."
    5. The students defied authorities, who set several deadlines for clearing the broad plaza, and insisted they would carry on their month-long campaign.
    6. On Saturday, the last day of the festival, the performances took place in San Salvador as planned, in a plaza across from the Metropolitan Cathedral.
    7. Students continued their occupation of Tiananmen Square, triumphantly unveiling a 33-foot-high sculpture inspired by the Statue of Liberty in the center of the vast plaza.
    8. The memorial wall sits in a bricked plaza at the entrance to the university in front of the Hall of Languages, the school's oldest building.
    9. That sale would have included CNN Center's two office towers, 80,000-square-foot retail plaza and 2,000-space parking building.
    10. Until authorities cracked down a few years ago, dozens of homeless people congregated nightly in the parking garages and maintenance areas beneath the plaza or on the complex's concourse level, especially during the winter.
    11. Jockey Massimo Coghe rode Benito to victory Saturday in the Palio, a medieval-style bareback race around Siena's main plaza.
    12. Ms. Lin's design calls for an upper plaza with a quiet pool and water that cascades down the face of a curved, black wall 40 feet long.
    13. They polish off the bottles themselves, then hop in the front seats and drive around the plaza, blowing their horns.
    14. The plaza was packed with shoppers, most of them white, witnesses and police said.
    15. Police Chief Lawrence Whalen said at least one fistfight broke out among people in the angry crowd that had gathered in the plaza, where two months ago thousands had gathered to honor the World Series champion Cincinnati Reds.
    16. It was 85 degrees and climbing on the plaza outside, but the weather service said the humidity made it feel like 95.
    17. Just off the plaza, the ruins of the Aztec Indians' Great Temple have been uncovered.
    18. A ganglion of lightning in the grey sky disperses a crowd gathered in the plaza to hear fraud allegations against the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, in last week's election for president and Congress.
    19. The nonprofit group hopes to raise $14 million for the dome and to build a plaza at the south entrance of the capitol building.
    20. The action began at 7:40 p.m. and reporters watched from a second-floor terrace of the Holiday Inn as at least one armored car of the 1,000-member Presidential Guard rumbled across the plaza in front of the palace and fired its cannon.
    21. The procession later left for the plaza as demonstrators carried away the wounded.
    22. Earlier, he spoke to more than 1,500 people in the trendy central plaza of Santa Fe, N,M.
    23. In a plaza, models cavort to a Michael Jackson song and tout a line of surf wear.
    24. Cost estimates range from $140 million to $300 million for the basilica, which was packed to capacity for the consecration Mass. In the plaza outside, tens of thousands of pilgrims followed the service on television monitors and loudspeakers.
    25. Before dawn, authorities removed protesters from the plaza in front of the Legislative Palace, site of the inauguration, and bussed 200 to 300 of them out of the city, demonstrators said.
    26. An explosion at a shopping plaza in a white suburb of Durban slightly injured a woman Monday and damaged a bakery, police said.
    27. The mayor said city officials are considering building a memorial plaza on the department store site.
    28. Slavery was wrong." Some "pro-choice" protesters _ including members of a group supporting the rights of AIDS victims _ broke through police barricades on the building's front plaza.
    29. The crowd followed the cortege out of the plaza, through the narrow, brick streets of the old section of Panama City and onto the capital's main business artery.
    30. The Capitol plaza was temporarily transformed into a mint as white-gloved legislators manned giant presses to strike gold and silver coins commemorating the 200th anniversary of the Congress.
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