pave

动词 v.
中文释义
发音 pāv

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To cover something with paving slabs. UK
  2. To cover with stone, concrete, blacktop or other solid covering, especially to aid travel. Canada,US
    — They paved Paradise and put up a parking lot.
  3. To pave the way for; to make easy and smooth. figuratively,transitive
    — After two weeks Miguel began to circulate freely about the city in his truck, albeit with the long, chrome-plated pistol cocked and ready on his lap. It wouldn't be for three more years that Gonzo would tell Miguel about the secret leverage that paved his path to freedom.

词形变化

paves present,singular,third-person paving participle,present paved participle,past paved past

词汇关系

衍生词
depave impave nuke and pave pavement paven paver paveside pave the cowpath pave the road to hell pave the way paving stone repave unpave

词源

From Old French paver (“to pave, to cover”), from Vulgar Latin *pavāre (“to beat down, to smash”), from Latin pavīre (“to beat, strike, ram, tread down”).
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