| 释义 |
high road, ˈhigh-ˌroad
[After highway.]
A chief or main road; a highway.
1709Steele Tatler No. 144 ⁋2 [We] do not share alike in the Division of Her Majesty's High-Road. 1763Johnson in Boswell 6 July, The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England. 1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. 187 Words which he hears in the market, wake, high-road, or ploughfield. 1881Besant & Rice Chapl. of Fleet i. iii. The lane led on to the high-road.
b. fig.
1793Holcroft Lavater's Physiog. III. xii. 64, I..will travel in the high-road of certainty, and confine myself to what is visible. 1839–40Thackeray Catherine v, I was on the high road to fortune. |