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词汇 highway
释义 highway
noun[ C ]
US or formalUKuk /ˈhaɪ.weɪ/ us /ˈhaɪ.weɪ/
A2
a public road, especially an important road that joins cities or towns together: 公路(尤指连接城镇的重要公路)
a coastal/interstate highway滨海/州际公路
See also
superhighwayUS
The photograph showed a lonely stretch of Arizona highway.
The senator called the new highways proposal "...a fraud and a boondoggle that the taxpayer should not tolerate".参议员称新的道路建设提案是“…毫无意义的骗钱工程,纳税人不应该容忍”。
Most of the old road - which stretched from Chicago to Los Angeles - has been superseded by the great Interstate highways.
The coach took the interstate highway.
The highway connects New York and Philadelphia.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Roads: rural & suburban
back road
beltway
boreen
by-road
bypass
dirt road
dirt track
feeder
holloway
orbital road
rat run
relief road
ring road
service road
the highways and bywaysidiom
thoroughfare
through route
through traffic
throughway
thruway

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Roads: motorways

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the highways and byways

highway | American Dictionary


highway
noun[ C ]
us/ˈhɑɪˌweɪ/
a road, esp. a big road that joins cities or towns together:
The interstate highways are usually faster, but smaller roads can be more scenic.

Examples of highway


highway
An architecture for fuzzy sensor validation and fusion for vehicle following in automated highways.
Interestingly, most of the virus particles in t h e s e highways appeared incomplete.
Now we know that villains were operating in motor plants, weakening brakes slightly so that there is a greater risk of collision on highways.
Most vertices are connected by efficient highways, which take you to almost any other vertex within about log n/n (but rarely much quicker).
Cars and highways and courtrooms have been here for even less.
In these pictures, typical features of industrial environment mostly have been left out: highways, high tension piles, industrial areas etc. thus suggesting an idyllic, pre-industrial landscape that scarcely anywhere exists.
His recent research dealt with automated highways and intersections, airpor t design optimization, air traffic control, maintenance and investment scheduling for waterways, and queuing network analysis.
Thus, the many inns and ordinaries, taverns and alehouses that sat along highways and littered towns and villages nationwide were crucial in collecting and distributing the flow of news.
All deaths that occur on highways have been and will be for some time due to this cause, though the villains no longer work in the plants.
Obviously, a highway's alignment and other characteristics manifest political action and reflect a society's or, in specific local cases, a neighborhood's prevailing values and attitudes about the technology/environment relationship.
In this domain there was not only pastoral land but also imperial hunting grounds, production centres, including agricultural land and craft workshops which were connected by highways.
Representations of the rest of the country were based on the perceptions of towns, villages and the countryside surrounding major highways used by merchant caravans, pilgrims or diplomatic missions.
By 1970 there are expected to be in use a further 78¼ miles of four-lane highways.
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Expenditure on the maintenance of highways is expected to be met from revenue rather than from loans.
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On the highways there are dangers, and the warning signals are clear.
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Collocations withhighway


highway

These are words often used in combination with highway.

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busy highway
The real offences are, first, sheer obstruction of a busyhighway and, secondly, long periods of parking in places which should be available for short periods only.
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elevated highway
A frequent scenario is that the jumper will sit on an elevatedhighway or building-ledge as police attempt to talk them down.
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existing highway
The private consortia who provide the finance and expertise to design, build and operate the new roads will work alongside existinghighway authorities.
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