boulevard

• n. [建] 林荫大道；（美）大马路
• adj. 娱乐性的
• vt. 给…提供林阴大街；把…建成林阴大街

由bulwark改编的变体词。bulwark, 防御，堡垒。原指军事城墙，后指城墙改造的散步道路，然后借指普通的林荫大道，大道。

boulevard

boulevard: [18] Boulevard is a frenchified version of German bollwerk ‘fortification’ (the corresponding anglicized version is bulwark). The meaning of the French word, apparently quite divergent from that of bulwark, comes originally from the practice of constructing walkways along the top of demolished ramparts.
=> bulwark

boulevard (n.)

1769, from French boulevard (15c.), originally "top surface of a military rampart," from a garbled attempt to adopt Middle Dutch bolwerc "wall of a fortification" (see bulwark) into French, which at that time lacked a -w- in its alphabet. The notion is of a promenade laid out atop demolished city walls, a way which would be much wider than urban streets. Originally in English with conscious echoes of Paris; since 1929, in U.S., used of multi-lane limited-access urban highways. Early French attempts to digest the Dutch word also include boloart, boulever, boloirque, bollvercq.

1. Automobiles speed in an endless stream along the boulevard.

宽阔的林荫道上,汽车川流不息.

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

2. They replaced the narrow streets with wide boulevard.

他们将狭窄的街道都改建成了宽阔的林荫大道.

来自《简明英汉词典》

3. We did an extremely fast U-turn and shot south up the Boulevard St. Michel.

我们飞快地来了个180度的转弯，然后沿着圣米歇尔大道向南疾驰而去。

来自柯林斯例句

4. Sunset Boulevard was originally conceived by Wilder as an astringent satire on Hollywood.

怀尔德最初是想把《日落大道》拍成一部对好莱坞的辛辣讽刺片。

来自柯林斯例句

5. For our clothes, we went to a shop on Hollywood Boulevard, and we just picked it all off the rack.

至于衣服，我们到好莱坞大道上的一家商店里，都是直接挑现成的买。

来自柯林斯例句