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单词 spaghetti junction
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Definition of spaghetti junction in English:

spaghetti junction

noun
informal
  • 1A complex multi-level road junction (in the UK, applied typically to a major traffic interchange on the M6 near Birmingham)

    we drove non-stop to Manchester, using the new M6 toll road to bypass Spaghetti Junction
    a system of spaghetti junctions
    Example sentencesExamples
    • As the traffic got closer to the Spaghetti Junction it started to speed up.
    • There have been as many twists and turns in the Inner Relief Road as you will find in any spaghetti junction.
    • The city's most famous landmark is a snarl of concrete freeways affectionately known as Spaghetti Junction.
    • Imagine Spaghetti Junction, the Blackwall Tunnel exit and Hyde Park Corner all rolled together.
    • The road system at that point is an insane spaghetti junction - an easy place to get lost, dazed and confused.
    • She talked all the way to Spaghetti Junction.
    1. 1.1 A tangle of overlapping and intertwining lengths or parts.
      a spaghetti junction of electrical cables
      figurative the result of this political spaghetti junction is that his position as leader is deeply undermined
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Does your wardrobe contain a spaghetti junction of wire hangers and layer upon layer of clothing and accessories?
      • Our IT room was the most atrocious spaghetti junction with cables going from one place to another and nothing was labelled.
      • The spaghetti junction of cultural connections is continually mutating - as history is made, as relationships are born or die, and as emotions brighten or fade away.
      • The political spaghetti junction allows money to flow from corrupter to the corrupted with relative ease, but, in its brain-spinning disorder, it offers near impenetrable barriers to the investigator.
      • I don't believe that the spaghetti junction of relationships between these organisations can possibly lead to an efficient, well-organised system until a much more rigid hierarchy of command is imposed.
      • It's prettier from the front than the back - it's a literal spaghetti junction behind these racks - something like 25 mains leads, 30 interconnects of various types, and aerial leads.
      • Most televisions are connected by wires not just to the aerial, but also a DVD player, a Feeview or Sky box and also a video games console, resulting in a spaghetti junction of cables.
 
 
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