Picture a small town that is really built along one road. The bank is on it, the bus stops on it, the fruit shop and the place are on it. If you want to buy something, meet someone, or post a letter, you walk down that one road. Everything else in the town hangs off it.
From the word’s history
The source says the street-name use comes from proprialization of the ordinary noun (the description became the name), and that the everyday-people use comes from metonymy (the street standing for the people on it).
來源說明，路名的用法是普通名詞被叫成專有名詞：一條路被描述久了，描述就變成名字。而「老百姓」的用法是轉喻，用街來指街上的人。兩條線都從同一個畫面出發，只是一條停在路上，一條走到人身上。
Wiktionary entry for Main Street, etymology note (kaikki snapshot kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1638291118:6676)
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原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Main Streetname
- 1
The proper name of the main street of any of many villages, towns, or small cities, especially in the United States, Canada, Ireland, and some parts of Scotland.
- Near-synonym: High Street (esp. UK)
- 2
Everyday working-class people and small business owners, especially with regard to their concerns, social views, etc.
- Near-synonyms: High Street (UK); precariat, proletariat, working class, middle class
- Main Street will never accept such fashions.
main streetnoun
- 1
The principal street, or one of the several principal streets, of a town.
- Invercargill in New Zealand has two main streets, Dee Street and Tay Street.
- "The Chengtu revolutionaries were fantastically colourful in the Szechwanese manner—they costumed themselves as heroes of the stage and their energies were chiefly occupied in tying ropes across the main streets so that when Imperial officials rode by in their litters they would have to get down and crawl under, losing face.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。