| 词汇 | thoroughfare |
| 释义 | thoroughfare noun[ C ] formaluk /ˈθʌr.ə.feər/ us /ˈθɝː.ə.fer//ˈθɝː.oʊ.fer/ a main road for public use or a passage through somewhere大街，通衢，大道 no thoroughfare On road signs, no thoroughfare means no entry or do not go in.禁止通行 Roads: rural & suburban back road beltway boreen by-road bypass dirt road dirt track feeder highway main road orbital road rat run relief road ring road stock route the highways and bywaysidiom through route through traffic throughway thruway You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Roads: lights, signs & markings on roads thoroughfare | American Dictionarythoroughfare noun[ C ] us/ˈθɜr·əˌfeər, ˈθʌr-/ a road that connects to other roads: I live right on the main thoroughfare. Examples of thoroughfarethoroughfare The property was located at the intersection of two busy thoroughfares. Only a few side streets intersect the thoroughfares. Increased mobility had likewise prompted the founding or the expansion of charitable institutions along the main thoroughfares. The black townships were built as grids, with wide thoroughfares, making it difficult for a guerrilla to find shelter. The town gates were set in the walls where these principal thoroughfares made their exit. An important consequence of vehicle growth has been to diminish traffic speed on the capital city's major thoroughfares. In the domain of work, "street subsistence workers" quietly take over public thoroughfares to conduct their business on the vast parallel economy. The day room and main passageways were kept free of obstacles, and larger mobility aids such as walking frames were stored away from thoroughfares. They stood outside the important economic centres, and far from the major thoroughfares. In this case a child's shortest distance to school along public thoroughfares was just less than 3 miles. As a consequence, monuments were in many cases rebuilt, while old thoroughfares were suppressed and new ones created. In this way some inn yards have gradually become public thoroughfares and others may be seen at various stages of transition, while some have been closed and kept private. To cater to the growing number of immigrants, a range of popular restaurants, workers' hostels, and bathhouses started to crowd the main thoroughfares of these areas. The invention of back stairs and corridors rendered the family rooms increasingly private, since they now needed to be entered only for specific purposes, and no longer functioned as thoroughfares. The cohesion promoted by these shared spaces and architecture was destroyed by the civil war, however, as public squares and major thoroughfares became battle-lines between factions. See all examples of thoroughfare These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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