路口本身
最實在的那個畫面：地上真的有兩條路交叉。
crossroads (junction) · noun · B2
A place where two roads meet and cross each other, so that from there you can go straight on, turn left, or turn right.
十字路口
核心畫面
A picture worth holding: two roads cut across each other, and you are standing at the point where they meet. Several ways lead out from here, and the moment you take one, the others close behind you.
兩條路在地上交叉，而你正站在交叉的那一點上。從這裡出去有好幾條路——直走、左轉、右轉——但你只能選一條，而且一旦走上…更多收起
兩條路在地上交叉，而你正站在交叉的那一點上。從這裡出去有好幾條路——直走、左轉、右轉——但你只能選一條，而且一旦走上去，其他那幾條就在你身後關起來了。這個字有趣的地方在於，它同時抓住了兩件事：這裡是「必須選」的地方，也是「大家都會經過」的地方。Three branches
非做決定不可的時刻
把「必須選一條路」這件事從地面搬到人生上。
turning point · noun · B2
A time when a person, a group, or an industry has to make very important decisions that will change what happens to them in the future.
抉擇關頭；人生的十字路口
各方交會的樞紐
換個角度看同一個路口：不看「要往哪走」，看「誰會經過這裡」。
hub, meeting point · noun · B2
An important or central place, especially one where roads, people, goods, or ideas coming from different directions all meet.
樞紐；交會之地
原始詞典資料5 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。
crossroadsnoun
- 1
A place where one road crosses another; an intersection of two or more roads.
- Near-synonym: intersection
- When they came to a crossroads where the road split off into four cardinal directions, Stanton stood squinting up at the signpost for a long time.
- 2
A centrally located position.
- The shiny wet black triangle at the crossroads of where her legs split.
- Together they control the approaches to this important railway crossroads from Chester, Crewe, Wolverhampton, Hereford and Machynlleth, and the station itself via an unusual mix of semaphore and colour light signals.
- 3
A decision point; a turning point or opportunity to change a direction, a course, or a goal.
- Well Russia at the present time is at a crossroads. It is often said that the Cold War is over and that the West has won it- that's only half true. Because what has happened is that the communists have been defeated, but the ideas of freedom now are on trial. If they don't work, there will be a reversion to, not communism which has failed, but what I call a new despotism which would pose a mortal danger to the rest of the world because it would be infected with the virus of Russian imperialism which of course has been a characteristic of Russian foreign policy for centuries.
- 4
A fork in the road.
- But first he stopped his car at the crossroads where the highway forked off to Gastmann's house.
- The Company A commander, Captain Helmer, was at the crossroads where the road split, with the left fork leading to Udenbreth, when he saw a group of men coming toward him.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。