喜樂美語
  1. 1環城公路（環城快速道路）。美式用語；英式多說 ring road。

    A beltway is a fast main road that goes around a city, not through the centre. The shape is the idea: it sits like a belt around the town, so drivers can skip the busy middle. This is mainly an American word; in Britain people say ring road. The most famous one is the Capital Beltway around Washington, D.C. From that road, Americans stretched the word. “Inside the Beltway” means the world of national in Washington — the people and the talk inside that circle, not the tarmac itself. When someone calls a story “Beltway news,” they mean it matters to politicians more than to ordinary people. That stretch is informal newspaper talk. The road itself is an ordinary traffic word.

組成From belt (a loop around something) + way (a road); compare highway.

同家族的字

  • beltthe road makes a loop, like a belt around the city
  • highwaysame -way: a kind of main road

原始詞典資料5 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。

Beltwayname

  • 1

    A 64-mile Interstate freeway surrounding Washington, D.C.

  • 2

    The expressway that surrounds another city.

  • 3

    governmentpoliticsThe US federal government and policy and lobbying organizations, located in Washington, D.C., sometimes with a suggestion of their elitism or insularity

    • But given that it takes 60 votes to beat a filibuster and 66 to override a veto, and given that the GOP has since added four hard-right senators to its total, it’s safe to say that nothing will be happening inside the Beltway anytime soon.
    • While not the entirety of the reason why the Beltway struggles to shed its imperial hubris and adapt to the new multipolar world, (much of that is simply complacency) understanding democratism’s hold over the governing elite is vital for explaining the unique hostility found in so much of foreign policy commentary towards a soberer and more realistic appraisal of the world.

Beltwayadj

  • 1

    Of or relating to the culture of Washington, D.C., sometimes with a suggestion of its elitism or insularity; politicized.

    • Apparently wishing to go Beltway in a big way, the Gap reportedly solicited Clinton spokesman George Stephanopoulos and media adviser Mandy Grunwald to pose for ads, but were turned down.
    • In a typical indictment, one columnist recently called some piece of Washington policymaking "too secret, too expert, too Beltway."

beltwaynoun/ˈbɛltˌweɪ/

  • 1

    A freeway that encircles a city.

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。