Yard

(noun.) an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock).

(noun.) a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen.

(noun.) the enclosed land around a house or other building; 'it was a small house with almost no yard'.

(noun.) an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines.

(noun.) a tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings); 'they opened a repair yard on the edge of town'.

(noun.) a tract of land where logs are accumulated.

(noun.) a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride.

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• I was not expected, for she left me locked in the yard, while she went to ask if I were to be admitted. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• At length, Mr Boffin entreated to be allowed a quarter of an hour's grace, and a cooling walk of that duration in the yard. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Not wanting to go through the yard, because of the dogs, she turned off along the hill-side to descend on the pond from above. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The yard presented none of that bustle and activity which are the usual characteristics of a large coach inn. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• If a girl, doll or no doll, swoons within a yard or two of a man's nose, he can see it without a perspective-glass. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• In the yard, were Mr Pancks and Mr Rugg, come to see the last touch given to their work. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Plornish lived in Bleeding Heart Yard. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The screed, or frill of the cap, stood a quarter of a yard broad round the face of the wearer. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• After a momentary whirl in the outer court-yard, the prison-door opened, and shut upon them. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Helstone and Moore trotted forth from the mill-yard gates, at the head of their very small company, in the best possible spirits. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• They come to a building in the yard with an office on an upper floor. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• It wasn't liked in the yard. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• I consider his planting one of his menial tools in the yard, an act of sneaking and sniffing. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• He played with her as a child when in that yard a child she played. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Being built on the hillside, its basement opens into the rear yard. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• At this point the water recedes a few hundred yards from the high land. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Edith Baxter was within thirty yards of the stables, when a man appeared out of the darkness and called to her to stop. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• One day Edison appeared with some tin-foil and four or five yards of fine wire. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• At the same time I heard the reapers not a hundred yards behind me. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Shut into the drawing-room, the pair took seats, each in an arm-chair, placed opposite, a few yards between them. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• They came down the last two hundred yards, moving carefully from tree to tree in the shadows and now, through the last pines of the steep hillside, the bridge was only fifty yards away. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• The London train whizzed by, drew back some yards, and in Mr. Bell was hurried by the impatient guard. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• So far Morse had only used his recorder over a few yards of wire, his electro-magnet had been of the simplest make, and his battery was a single pair of plates. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Yet a few yards to Yeobright's left, on the open heath, how ineffectively gnashed the storm! 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• In front of both the ground was clear for several hundred yards and then became wooded. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Below, the water extended into the woods several hundred yards back from the bank on the east side. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• I had not gone more than a few hundred yards when I saw a body of troops marching past me not fifty yards away. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• There were some boats and barges astrand in the mud, and these enabled us to come within a few yards of her without being seen. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• At the distance of a few hundred yards a man might fire at you all day without your finding it out. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• There are over 50,000 tons of steel in the superstructure, and about 140,000 cubic yards of masonry and concrete in the foundation piers. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.

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