α. see through- prefix and way n.1 and int.1; also Old English þrhweg (abbreviated form).
β. Middle English thorouȝweie, 1600s thorowway, 1800s– thoroughway Brit. /ˈθʌrəweɪ/, U.S. /ˈθərəˌweɪ/, /ˈθəroʊˌweɪ/ (rare).
单词 | throughway |
释义 | throughwayn.α. see through- prefix and way n.1 and int.1; also Old English þrhweg (abbreviated form). β. Middle English thorouȝweie, 1600s thorowway, 1800s– thoroughway Brit. /ˈθʌrəweɪ/, U.S. /ˈθərəˌweɪ/, /ˈθəroʊˌweɪ/ (rare). rare before 19th cent. 1. A passage or way through; esp. a road or path forming a route between two places; a thoroughfare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, passage, or means of access to a place > [noun] > through throughwayOE throughgangc1400 thoroughfarec1405 throughgate1457 through-passage1575 α. β. c1450 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Bodl. 277) (1850) 1 Kings xxiv. 3 Thorouȝ weies [E.V. a1382 Bodl. 959 Þanne Saul..wente to aserchen dauyd & his men, vp on most heȝe roches, þat oneli to wijlde caperetis ben þurȝ weies; L.V. a1425 Royal ben able to weie; L. perviae].a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 9 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) Was there not a thorough way then made by the sword, for the imposing of the lawes upon them?1609 W. Cowper Three Heauenly Treat. Romanes i. 173 This life is a thorow-way or middle passage, eyther to heauen or hell. 1804 Hampshire Tel. & Sussex Chron. 31 Dec. This House..having a back Door and thoroughway into Castle-Square and Lane.1873 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. Jan. 12/2 The chief bridges..were built..upon thoroughways over which there was a large amount of travel.1915 Countryside Mag. & Suburban Life May 261/3 Some areas may need perfectly straight and direct thoroughways, as the open square in the busy part of a city.1998 P. Spalding Seize Bk., jail Author 307 Today the street is still a central thoroughway through the old city.OE Sedulius Glosses (Corpus Cambr. 173) in F. Sandgren Otium et Negotium (1973) 212 Ad peruia : to þa[m] þ [u] rhweg [um] . a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) 1 Kings xxiv. 3 Þanne Saul..wente to aserchen dauyd & his men, vp on most heȝe roches, þat oneli to wijlde caperetis ben þurȝ weies [L.V. c1450 Bodl. 277 thorouȝ weies; L. perviae]. 1880 Manch. Guardian 12 Aug. 6/4 Great efforts were put forth by the railway officials to clear the line and restore the through way as soon as possible. 1899 Financial Times 7 June 2/5 An agreement..to secure a throughway to London. 1935 C. Day Lewis Time to Dance & Other Poems 22 To east or west—which is the best, The through-way of the two? 1977 ‘E. Crispin’ Glimpses of Moon xii. 233 The cradle..remains obstinately blocking the throughway. 2000 J. Robertson Fanatic (2001) 26 The close was..used by drunks and destitutes as a urinal more than as a throughway. 2. North American. Chiefly in form thruway. A wide main road with controlled or limited access, designed for use by fast, long-distance traffic; an expressway, a motorway.Originally with reference to the New York State Thruway, proposed in 1942 and built in the 1950s. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > for wheeled vehicles > for fast motor traffic speedway1903 motorway1906 superhighway1924 freeway1926 expresswayc1938 throughway1942 1942 Kingston (N.Y.) Daily Freeman 13 Mar. 1/4 Legislation which would put on the state highway map a ‘thru-way’ from New York city past Albany, Utica, Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo, to the Pennsylvania line. 1942 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-Amer. 13 Mar. 16/2 In introducing the bill, Moffat and Hampton declared in a joint statement:..‘No State throughway shall be constructed..except on a right-of-way having a minimum width of 200 feet generally.’ 1969 A. Lurie Real People 42 Down below the rose garden I can hear cars whirring past on the thruway. 1988 Toronto Star (Nexis) 31 Dec. g9 Take the throughway to Erie, Pennsylvania. 2003 S. Millar On Brinks 172 I couldn't get off the thruway until the next exit which was about 30 miles away. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.OE |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。