Parking meters are usually on the street, but you can also find some public parking meters in " parking lots, " in separate areas just for parking cars.
Nowadays, many parking meters take credit cards, but we probably would still use the same expression, " to plug the meter" – to put coins into the parking meter.
现在很多停计时器都可以刷卡,但我可能还是会用同样的表达方, “to plugg the meter” ——往停计时器里投硬币。
Bond turned and looked back down the lanes of metal standards, like parking meters, from which speakers could be connected with your car to pick up the sound.
Not only was Hagrid twice as tall as anyone else, he kept pointing at perfectly ordinary things like parking meters and saying loudly, " See that, Harry? Things these Muggles dream up, eh? "
Alan says, " I'd be willing to plug the meter all evening if we could just find a space." " To plug (plug) the meter, " or " to plug the parking meter, " means to put coins into the parking meters.