• n. [建] 林蔭大道；（美）大馬路
• adj. 娛樂性的
• vt. 給…提供林陰大街；把…建成林陰大街

由bulwark改編的變體詞。bulwark, 防御，堡壘。原指軍事城墻，后指城墻改造的散步道路，然后借指普通的林蔭大道，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.

寬闊的林蔭道上,汽車川流不息.

來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》

2. They replaced the narrow streets with wide boulevard.

他們將狹窄的街道都改建成了寬闊的林蔭大道.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

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

我們飛快地來了個180度的轉彎，然后沿著圣米歇爾大道向南疾馳而去。

來自柯林斯例句

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

懷爾德最初是想把《日落大道》拍成一部對好萊塢的辛辣諷刺片。

來自柯林斯例句

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，我們到好萊塢大道上的一家商店里，都是直接挑現成的買。

來自柯林斯例句