| 单词 | highway |
| 释义 | highway (once / 298 pages) n A highway is a busy road with many lanes. Highways are usually the quickest route for driving between one city and another. Highways were originally built to connect cities and towns, and since they're wide and have high speed limits, they decreased the travel time. Highways are always considered public land, and they're usually maintained by the individual state. The Old English precursor was heahweg, "main street" or "main way." The word high has often been used to mean "main" or "major," especially when describing a street. WORD FAMILYhighway: highways, superhighway+/superhighway: superhighways USAGE EXAMPLESNext to the construction area of the new Highway 520 bridge, birds still gather despite the high-decibel sounds from the work. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) So far, the technology is being built into just a few miles of highway in a handful of states, even as smartcars hit the roads. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) And the Highway Patrol said security footage caught two people splattering motor oil on the sidewalk and Capitol building on Halloween night. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) n a major road for any form of motor transport Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper main road Appian Way an ancient Roman road in Italy extending south from Rome to Brindisi; begun in 312 BC Flaminian Wayan ancient Roman road in Italy built by Gaius Flaminius in 220 BC; extends north from Rome to cisalpine Gaul arterial road a major or main route beltway, bypass, ring road, ringwaya highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center divided highway, dual carriagewaya highway divided down the middle by a barrier that separates traffic going in different directions expressway, freeway, motorway, pike, state highway, superhighway, throughway, thruwaya broad highway designed for high-speed traffic highroad, trunk roada highway interstate, interstate highwayone of the system of highways linking major cities in the 48 contiguous states of the United States autobahnan expressway in a German-speaking country autostradaan expressway in an Italian-speaking country toll road, turnpikean expressway on which tolls are collected road, route an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation |
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