| 单词 | highway patrol |
| 释义 | > as lemmashighway patrol highway patrol n. U.S. (a) a group of workers who patrol roads and highways for the purpose of maintaining them (now rare); (b) a (state) law enforcement agency whose chief role is the enforcing of laws that govern the operation of motor vehicles on public roads and highways; the action of enforcing such laws. ΘΚΠ society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > policeman > traffic policeman traffic officer1852 traffic cop1905 highway patrol1909 speed cop1924 society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > builder > [noun] > builders or maintainers of roads waymaker?c1475 roadman1788 road-maker1792 path master1799 roadsman?1807 Macadamite1821 macadamizer1824 road breaker1834 grader1870 asphalter1880 linesman1888 lengthman1902 highway patrol1909 1909 Good Roads Mag. Apr. 130/2 Among the features which the commission has decided on is the highway patrol... It is planned to have repair materials located at frequent intervals along the routes, so that the patrolmen may be able to make all the smaller repairs which the roadway may require. 1914 Atlanta (Georgia) Constit. 11 Nov. 11/5 The county police organization is as well equipped for highway patrol as any other such system in the country. The number of accidents due to speeding has decreased to a marked degree. 1925 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 19 320 Governor Pothier would have a state police, motorized highway patrol, and a bureau of investigation, for Rhode Island. 1957 J. Kerouac Let. 24 June in Sel. Lett. 1957–69 (1999) 44 How do you expect the Highway Patrol would ever let us go free enuf to putput into town in our little bikes and jalopys for food and wine? 2008 N.Y. Times Mag. 3 Aug. 32/2 I learned that Officer Sam Morgan, of the California Highway Patrol, occasionally uses the term ‘cranial-rectal inversion’ when referring to drivers of especially poor judgment. < as lemmas |
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