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A gateway is literally an opening you go through to enter a place, like a big gate at the entrance to a garden, city, or building. People also use it for a first step that leads to something bigger — 'a gateway to a new career' means a starting point that opens the door to it. You may also hear 'gateway drug,' meaning a small habit that can lead to a bigger, more harmful one.
入口、大門；（比喻）通往...的門戶/起點
組成gate + way
同家族的字
- gatethe physical opening or barrier itself
原始詞典資料7 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。
gatewaynoun/ˈɡeɪtˌweɪ/
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A passage that can be closed by use of a gate.
- The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, […].
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A place regarded as giving access to somewhere.
- The staff offer a touch of Norfolk courtesy as they guide passengers onto connecting services. The bustling concourse has a wide selection of information and retail, including a very active city tourism presence. This station now feels like a real gateway to Norwich.
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Any point that represents the beginning of a transition from one place or phase to another.
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Any point that represents the beginning of a transition from one place or phase to another.
- a gateway drug
- Just as they say that marijuana leads to harder drugs, Gallegly is claiming that crush is a “gateway fetish”—a term I've never heard before. He claims that if someone starts with bugs they'll end up escalating to human babies in no time.
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A point at which freight moving from one territory to another is interchanged between transportation lines.
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communicationscomputingelectrical-engineeringIn wireless internet, an access point with additional software capabilities such as providing NAT and DHCP, which may also provide VPN support, roaming, firewalls, various levels of security, etc.
gatewayverb/ˈɡeɪtˌweɪ/
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To make available using a gateway, or access point.
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。