| 单词 | trunk road |
| 释义 | > as lemmastrunk road trunk road n. a main road; spec. in Grand (also Great) Trunk Road, the great highway between Calcutta (Kolkata) and Amritsar constructed during the British Raj. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > main or major road great road1614 high road1620 main road1741 highway1837 traffic artery1845 trunk road1848 main-way1862 arterial road1886 primary roada1903 route1912 arterial1920 major road1930 spine road1961 1848 J. Bourne Let. 24 Apr. in Railways in India (ed. 2) 19 The grand trunk road, connecting Calcutta with the north west provinces..is already a railway all but the rails. 1851 Ret. Public Works India 146 in Parl. Papers XLI. 513 Documents..report the progress of the works on the Great Trunk Road. 1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. III. xiii. 233 Englebourn was situated on no trunk road. 1869 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 398 In India, on some of the trunk roads there are regular halting grounds. 1888 R. Kipling Departm. Ditties (1890) 19 All those hairy gentlemen..Swaggered down the Grand Trunk Road into Bow Bazar. 1890 R. S. Ferguson Hist. Cumberland x. 149 The trunk-road itself passes Waverton. 1931 J. W. Gregory Story of Road xviii. 274 In 1839 it was decided to construct a metalled road, the Grand Trunk Road, from Calcutta to Delhi... By 1849 about £300,000 had been spent on it. 1937 Archit. Rev. 81 155 The Trunk Roads Act comes into operation on April 1st. 1974 Listener 2 May 574/3 Bentinck's Governor-Generalship..was not a complete failure, as the Great Trunk Road shows. < as lemmas |
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