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单词 waterfront
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waterfront
noun[Cusually singular]
uk
/ˈwɔː.tə.frʌnt/us
/ˈwɑː.t̬ɚ.frʌnt/
apartof atownthat is next to anareaofwatersuch as ariveror thesea:
（城镇的）滨水区，水边地
Sheownsapopulartouristrestaurantonthe town's waterfront.她在该镇的滨水区有一家颇受欢迎的旅游餐馆。
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(Definition ofwaterfrontfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

waterfront| American Dictionary

waterfront
noun[C]
us
/ˈwɔ·t̬ərˌfrʌnt,ˈwɑt̬·ər-/
apartof atownnext to anareaofwatersuch as alake, ariver, or theocean
(Definition ofwaterfrontfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofwaterfront

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Reference to a 'liberation fund' highlights the (relatively) privileged position of the coffee workers on the city'swaterfront.
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Part three focuses on the fraught industrial relations of thewaterfrontand the struggles to create a trade union among this casual, but skilled, workforce.
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The city has a busywaterfront, office towers, streets lined with shops and entertainment and a public transportation system that ties the city together.
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We have pondered the problem only to come up with the suggestion of retaining the present, pleasantwaterfrontas is.
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The project team has been concerned with situating a city on thewaterfront, and we feel that what has been lost can be retrieved.
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On thewaterfront, a 25 m wide quay promenade, a road and a sidewalk and arches containing various shops would be built.
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We have looked at examples from landfill, industrial, inner-city infrastructural, andwaterfrontprojects.
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By the mid-thirteenth century bath-houses providing hot baths in return for payment had appeared in thewaterfrontdistrict and were commonly associated with vice.
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This will form a very large triangular area with a long-side facing thewaterfront.
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The car park will be located behind the lifeboat station, between thewaterfrontand the cliffs.
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To the west, there is a triangular area that we recommend be reserved for a convention hall on thewaterfront.
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Hundreds of people gathered at thewaterfront, including a choir that had been invited to give a concert.
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The 'systematic review' of the available evidence has emerged as the favoured instrument, and research syntheses are now commissioned and conducted right across the policywaterfront.
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The subjects of local rulers who lived in fiefs that included parts of the coastline were allowed to fish in the waters adjacent to theirwaterfront.
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Thewaterfronthas been disregarded.
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