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。
Word Originlate 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’.