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A causeway is a raised road or path built across wet ground, a marsh, or even through shallow water, so you can walk or drive without sinking. It sits higher than what is around it, like a long low bridge made of earth and stone. Some join an island to the land. The word is ordinary in geography and travel writing; it is not slang. Though actually, the spelling is a trap. It looks like cause + way, as if the road were "the way of a cause". It is not. The second half is way, a path. The first half is an old French word for a paved road.
堤道（高出水面或濕地的道路）
組成From Middle English cawcewey. The second half is English way. The first half is from Middle English cauce, from old northern French caucee / cauchie, "route, highway" (French still has chaussée from the same place), from Vulgar Latin *calciāta. Scholars differ on the Latin behind that: probably calx, calcis, "limestone" (a road made with lime), or else calciō, "to stamp with the heels", from calx, "heel". Either way, it is not the English word cause.
同家族的字
- waythe second half: a path or road
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
causewaynoun/ˈkɔːz.weɪ/
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A road that is raised so as to be above water, marshland, and similar low-lying obstacles, which in some cases may flood periodically (e.g. due to tides). Originally causeways were much like dykes, generally pierced to let water through, whereas many modern causeways are more like bridges or viaducts.
- 1836, Account of the Old Bridge at Stratford-le-Bow in Essex from Alfred Burges, Esq. addressed to Sir Henry Ellis https://archive.org/details/archaeologiaorm01londgoog . . .the passage over the water of the Luye at Stratford atte Bowe, anciently used to be in a certain place which is called the Old Forde, which is distant from the place where the bridges and causeway now are nearly one mile, at which passage many persons passing over it at divers times were drowned, and in great danger, and when after so much danger came to the knowledge of Lady Matilda, Queen of England […]
- Egbert went quickly up to the causeway into the castle, where they heard the sentry sing out as usual, ‘Halt, who goes there?’
causewayverb/ˈkɔːz.weɪ/
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obsoleteTo pave, to cobble.
- In thus limiting his judgment, I understand that he has not pronounced any opinion in regard to the formation and causewaying of streets […]
- The Glasgow Town Council decided at their last meeting to causeway the following streets at the respective costs given […]
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。