yards

英 [jɑːdz]

美 [jɑrdz]

n.  院子; (某种用途的)区域，场地; 码(长度单位，等于3英尺或0.9144米)
yard的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 码（长度单位，等于36英寸或约91.4厘米）
  Ayardis a unit of length equal to thirty-six inches or approximately 91.4 centimetres.
  1. The incident took place about 500 yards from where he was standing...
     事件发生在距他所站位置大约500码远的地方。
  2. A few yards away, Jos Vargas stands beside his small home.
     几码之外，乔斯·瓦尔加斯站在他的小房子旁边。
  3. ...a long narrow strip of linen two or three yards long.
     两三码长的细长亚麻布条
  4. ...a yard of silk.
     一码丝绸
• N-COUNT 院子;庭院
  Ayardis a flat area of concrete or stone that is next to a building and often has a wall around it.
  1. I saw him standing in the yard.
     我看到他站在院子里。
• N-COUNT （进行某项作业的）区域，场地，工场
  You can refer to a large open area where a particular type of work is done as ayard.
  1. ...a railway yard.
     铁路调车场
  2. ...a ship repair yard.
     船舶修理场
• N-COUNT （住宅旁的）园圃，花园
  Ayardis a piece of land next to someone's house, with grass and plants growing in it.
  1. He dug a hole in our yard on Edgerton Avenue to plant a maple tree when I was born.
     我出生的时候，他在埃杰顿大街我们家的园圃里挖了个坑，种了棵枫树。

in BRIT, use 英国英语用garden

双语例句

• A barge was about a hundred yards away, waiting to return seaward
  一艘驳船停在大约100码开外，等待着返海回航。
• He had angina and was unable to walk for more than 200 yards on the flat.
  他患有心绞痛，在平地上最多能走200码。
• The 120mm mortar has a range of 18,000 yards
  口径为120毫米的迫击炮的射程是1.8万码。
• The queue stretches several hundred yards and tickets are touted for a tenner.
  队伍排得有几百码长，票被炒到10英镑一张。
• The tanks ground to a halt after a hundred yards because the fuel had been siphoned out.
  由于燃油被人抽走，这些坦克行驶了100码后又轰隆隆地缓缓停了下来。
• About three hundred yards farther on there is a turning to the left.
  再往前大约300码有一个向左拐的拐角。
• There were two stragglers twenty yards back
  两名掉队者落后了20码。
• The lake itself lies only a few hundred yards off to your right and slightly downhill
  湖本身就在你右侧仅几百码的地方，稍微向山下走几步。
• The directional microphone trained on Foresters Cottage could pick up every word uttered inside at several hundred yards.
  对准福雷斯特小屋的定向扩音器在几百码远的地方也能捕捉到里面的人所说的任何一句话。
• Several hundred yards beyond the first switchback in the road, he came to the second bend.
  过了公路上第一个急转弯几百码处，他又遇到了第二个急转弯。