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单词 road gang
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road gang
road gang n. a gang of workers engaged in building or repairing roads; spec. a detachment of convicts detailed to work at road construction (now chiefly historical).
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1819 Sydney Gaz. 23 Jan. Four Men who had eloped from the Sydney Road Gang.
1889 H. F. Wood Englishman Rue Caïn xiv The road-gangs of English navvies.
1927 Amer. Mercury Nov. 306/2 Ninety days on the road gang, hard labor!
2002 H. Kunzru Impressionist (2003) 481 The main road..stretches away out of town... By its side, a resting road gang watches artillery being moved along it.
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