英:[ˈməʊtəweɪ]
美:[ˈmoʊtərweɪ]
英:[ˈməʊtəweɪ]
美:[ˈmoʊtərweɪ]
mo·tor·way
mo tr weI
复数:motorways
词根:motored
adj.motored 装有发动机的
n.motorist 驾车旅行的人,开汽车的人
motoring 驾驶汽车;乘汽车
v.motoring 驾驶汽车(motor的ing形式)
motored 驾驶汽车;乘汽车经过(motor的过去式和过去分词)
noun
(chiefly British) a major public road on which one can drive at high speeds, esp. between cities; highway.
这组词都有“路”的意思,其区别是:
highway通常指市区外可以通行各种机动车辆的交通干线。
route指从此处通往彼处的路线、路程等。
avenue在美国,指城市中一侧或两侧建筑物林立的大道或马路;而在英国则常指通住乡村大住宅、私人大庄园或两旁栽树的道路。
trail指人或兽在森林、荒野或山中踩出的小径或崎岖小道。
street尤指城市中的道路,往往一侧或两侧有高大建筑物;还可指城市小镇、近郊可供人、车、马行走的平坦道路。
path多指由人或动物在田间、小丘或树丛中经常走动而踩出的小路,也指公园或花园等供人走的小径。
motorway高速公路,新词,特指为车辆快速通行而修的专线,美语为freeway或expressway。
way普通用词,含义广泛,可指各种路、道或通道,也可指抽象的道路。
road指连接两地间供行人或车辆使用的广阔平坦的大道,多指公路,也可用于引申意义。
pavement在英国,多指街道两旁的人行道,而美国人常用sidewlk表示人行道。
lane指农村或城镇的小道或小径,也指小巷。
以上来源于网络
"快速机动车交通专用公路",1903年,由 motor- 和 way(名词)组成。最早的使用是假设性的; 这个东西在1930年代变成了现实。
The first known use of motorway was in 1897
1 "We managed to remain fairly good humored, although there has been one or two tense moments between myself and Rob while we were trying to negotiate motorways around Madrid."
2 Anita joins a police motorway patrol, while Justin takes his beaten-up people carrier to a test track to see how it compares with the latest technology.
3 the southbound carriageway of the motorway
高速公路的南向车行道
4 From our house, you can hear the motorway traffic night and day.
从我们家里, 你就可以整天不断地听到快车道上来往车辆交通的吵闹声.
5 Not far out of the city, before hitting the motorway, Frank would have pulled over at a service station, filled up with fuel, bought a newspaper, tea, a breakfast roll, and a bar of chocolate.
6 I object to it on the same grounds that I did the now-defunct motorway restaurant, Happy Eater: it is a mistake to boast in advance.
7 Then, after I finally got back on the motorway, I developed a flat.
后来,等我终于回到公路上时,我有一个轮胎瘪了。
8 British media reported that Michael fell out of a car at speed on a busy motorway outside London during rush hour on May 16.
9 Plot: A very serious man drives around in a fake car delivering key statistics about Germany's motorway system via the medium of song.
10 That power sometimes felt great, but suddenly realising it as a teenage girl is like putting a child in a car and expecting that child to drive along a motorway.
11 Fog warnings are clearly displayed on motorways, but many drivers still take no head of them.
大雾警告清清楚楚地出示在汽车道上, 但很多司机不予理睬.
12 Everything was filmed on set at Cinecittà, even the motorway scenes in Fellini's Roma.
13 These night markets, lurid and busy against the dark mountains and looming double-decker motorways, are a picturesque expression of the city’s charms.
14 But his routine about the Red Hen motorway restaurant just tells us how horrible the place is, loudly, and his gag about the unquiet quiet coach on the train doesn't ring true.
15 But it has also siphoned business away from Main Street, amplifying a problem that began when the nearest motorway was rerouted to bypass the village.
16 As soon as restrictions were lifted, he jumped in his car and drove south from Milan, along empty motorways, right through the May night.
17 Man "How far away from Prague do you live, is there a motorway?"
18 A hitman, his unwitting apprentice and a mysterious hitchhiker in a world of motorways, diners and industrial wastelands.
19 When he was seven, the family moved to St. Albans, outside of London, to a house he describes as “between three motorways.”
20 If White House Down was a toddler on a trampoline, Olympus Has Fallen was a toddler wandering on to a motorway.