喜樂美語
  1. 1nA2/ˈmoʊtərweɪ/ · /ˈməʊtəweɪ/高速公路

    a very wide road with several lanes, made for cars and buses to travel fast on for a long way, especially from one city to another.

    示範例句 · Example

    The speed limit on the motorway is 70 miles an hour.

    逐字在這條高速公路上的速限是每小時七十英里。

    motorway 是英式英文說的「高速公路」——城市和城市之間那種很寬、有好幾線道、可以開很快的大馬路，路上沒有紅綠燈，也沒有店家，只有交流道可以上下。這個字可以想成 motor（汽車、引擎）＋ way（路）長出來的：一條專門給汽車跑的路，所以旁邊沒有人行道，也不會有人騎腳踏車。同一種路，美式英文說 highway 或 freeway；英國人說 motorway，兩邊講的是同一件事。人或車「在高速公路上」用 on，例如 on the motorway。

    常見搭配

    • on the motorway

      在高速公路上

      travelling on this kind of road

      There were a lot of buses on the motorway this morning.

    • a motorway service station

      高速公路休息站／服務區

      a place beside a motorway where drivers can rest, eat, and buy petrol

      The motorway service station has a shop, a café, and clean toilets.

    • the speed limit on the motorway

      高速公路的速限

      the fastest speed the law allows on this road

      Leo's mum always checks the speed limit on the motorway.

    • a motorway junction

      高速公路交流道

      the place where you drive on to or off a motorway

      Take the next motorway junction and turn towards the airport.

    • take the motorway

      走高速公路

      to choose to travel by motorway

      It's quicker if we take the motorway.

    意思相近

    highwayfreewayexpresswayinterstatedual carriageway

    用法接近

    ring roadbypasstoll roadmain roadjunction

    意思相反

    laneside street

core核心畫面

Picture a road built for one job only: moving cars fast over a long distance. It is very wide, with several lanes side by side, no traffic lights, no shops along the edge, no one crossing on foot — you get on, you drive, and you get off near another city. The word itself says it: a way made for motors.

可以想成一條「只為了跑得快」而蓋的路：很寬，好幾線車道並排，沒有紅綠燈、沒有路邊店家、沒有人行道，上了路就一直開，直到下一個交流道下來，往往已經到另一座城市。字面上也是這樣拆的——motor（汽車）＋ way（路），為汽車而設的路。英國說 motorway，美國多半說 highway 或 freeway，指的是同一種路。

複數 motorways

意思相近

highwayfreewayexpresswayinterstatedual carriageway

用法接近

ring roadbypasstoll roadmain roadjunction

意思相反

laneside street

原始詞典資料2 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。

motorwaynoun/ˈməʊtəweɪ/

  • 1

    A highway with grade-separated crossings (rather than level crossings) and designed (and only permitted) for high-speed motor-traffic (in Europe motor vehicles with a higher speed limit than 40 km/h) running in two directions on one separate carriageway each.

    • All the R. R.'s of America will have to be furnished with a biking way and a motor way on each side of the rails.
    • Work of constructing the Texas Motorway, a stone highway which when completed will extend from Fort Worth to Del Rio, Tex., a distance of 500 miles, has been commenced and a section between 18 and 20 miles long running out from Glenrose, the county seat of Somervell County, has been completed.
  • 2

    A racetrack venue designated especially for the sport of auto racing.

    • In December, track operators replaced the crushed rock with brick, earning the motorway the nickname, Brickyard.
    • The 9-degree banking you see in the Speedway’s four turns is believed to be the first intentionally banked motorway in the United States.

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