wharf

wharf 的原始词形来自中古英语的 "hwearf"，意思为“堤，码头”。

["n. 码头；停泊处\n v. 靠码头；为……建码头；把货卸在码头上\n \n [\n 复数\n wharves或wharfs\n 第三人称单数\n wharfs\n 现在分词\n wharfing\n 过去式\n wharfed\n 过去分词\n wharfed\n ]"]

Which companies are in Canary Wharf?

金丝雀码头有哪些公司？

The one with the pointy roof is Canary Wharf.

那个有尖顶的是金丝雀码头。

I think all the big banks are in Canary Wharf.

我觉得所有的大银行都在金丝雀码头。

你可以联想到“war(战争)+f”，把它想象成战争中的前线基地，船只在此装卸货物和搭载人员，这样或许有助于你记住这个词。

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But underneath it,it's where they discovered Gadsden’s Wharf.We think more than 40 percent of the African diaspora landed here.

But when the unions won the right to organize and won contracts,the wharf rats became lords of the dock.They became middle class.

How could you forget?So we dug, dug, and we found the wharf.And so in 2020,

is about 10 percent of the landed value of the catchon the side of the wharf, not in the retail shops.And we only get about 10 percent.

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