esplanade
noun /ˌespləˈneɪd/
/ˈesplənɑːd/, /ˈespləneɪd/
- a level area of open ground in a town for people to walk along, often by the sea or a river
（常指城镇中海滨、河畔供人散步的）广场，空地 - People were lying on the beach and strolling along the esplanade.
人们躺在沙滩上，沿着广场散步。
词源late 16th cent. (denoting an area of flat ground on top of a rampart): from French, from Italian spianata, from Latin explanatus ‘flattened, levelled’, from explanare, based on planus ‘plain’. - People were lying on the beach and strolling along the esplanade.