On a golf course, the fairway is the long strip of short, neat grass between where you start (the tee) and where the hole sits (the green). You are supposed to hit the ball along it.

On a golf course在高爾夫球場上，the fairway is the long strip of short, neat grass between where you start (the tee) and where the hole sits (the green)fairway（球道）指的是一長條修剪整齊的短草地，在你開球的地方（tee，發球台）和洞所在的地方（green，果嶺）之間。You are supposed to hit the ball along it你應該要把球打著這條路線前進。

If you miss, the ball sits in the rough — longer grass, harder to play. Golfers say a shot is “in the fairway” when it landed where they hoped.

If you miss如果你沒打好，the ball sits in the rough球就會停在rough（長草區）裡——longer grass, harder to play草比較長，比較難打。Golfers say a shot is “in the fairway”高爾夫球手會說這一球「in the fairway（在球道上）」，when it landed where they hoped當這一球落在他們希望的地方時。

In ordinary talk now, this is almost only a golf word. Ships once used fairway for a clear path through water, but that is not the sense you are learning here.

In ordinary talk now在現在的日常用語裡，this is almost only a golf word這幾乎只是個高爾夫用字。Ships once used fairway for a clear path through water船隻以前曾經用fairway來指水面上的一條暢通航道，but that is not the sense you are learning here但那不是你在這裡要學的意思。

Though actually, the fair in fairway is the old sense “open, clear, good to travel,” not “treating people justly.” A fairway is not a road, and you do not walk it the way you walk a path: you send a ball along it. The well-kept middle is the point; the word is praising how clear that strip is, compared with the messy grass on either side.

Though actually不過其實，the fair in fairway is the old sense “open, clear, good to travel,”fairway裡的fair，用的是舊義「開闊、暢通、方便通行」，not “treating people justly.”不是「公平對待人」的意思。A fairway is not a roadfairway不是一條路，and you do not walk it the way you walk a path你也不會像走一條小徑那樣走過它：you send a ball along it你是把球一路送過去。The well-kept middle is the point重點在那條維護良好的中間地帶；the word is praising how clear that strip is這個字稱讚的是那條草地有多乾淨清爽，compared with the messy grass on either side跟兩邊雜亂的草地相比。