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There has been a collision on the southbound stretch of the motorway.在高速公路南向路段上发生了一起撞车事故。
Environment protesters have made common cause with local people to stop the motorway being built.
Soon after we joined the motorway, the car started to make a strange noise.
A contraflow is in operation between junctions 13 and 14 on the motorway.
I got cut up several times on the motorway this morning - I've never seen such dangerous driving!
Double glazing has helped to deaden the noise from the motorway.

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motorway | American Dictionary

motorway
noun[ C ]
Brus/ˈmoʊ·t̬ərˌweɪ/
expressway

Examples of motorway

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For all motorways, we can observe an interesting easy-hard-easy pattern with increasing number of depots.
To that extent, the destruction caused by the motorway releases a certain amount of mythical meaning into the landscape, into what remains.
Everywhere the reign of these non-places is growing, in the forms of supermarkets, motorways, airports, and so on.
Across the motorway are a hotel (16) along with further shops and parking.
Outside this area the historical landscape becomes fragmented by an expanding network of railways and motorways.
Consider a lorry in the middle lane of a motorway moving to the inside lane as a car approaches from behind.
The typical motorway services building is managed by one company, but usually includes a variety of franchises all sharing a same food court and lavatories.
It pictured motorways as a purely international phenomenon, neglecting local interests and uses and connecting large cities and tourist destinations in almost straight lines.
The situations that made most respondents feel nervous were joining a motorway, driving in heavy traffic and changing lanes on a motorway.
A new rail and motorway bridge is to open at the turn of the century.
The maximum length of any motorway is 910 km, the maximum number of restaurants per motorway is 49.
When you break down on the side of a motorway, there's this incredible lack of meaning.
The valley, with its existing railway and proposed motorway, was the obvious base line for the town.
Their narratives reconstruct their houses from the void of the motorway.
In the process, he re-appropriates space (the place of encounter and dialogue) from the desert of non-space (the isolation caused by cars on a motorway).
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