喜樂美語
  1. 1n/ˈmoʊtərweɪ/ · /ˈməʊtəweɪ/高速公路

    a very wide road with several lanes, made for cars and buses to travel fast on for a long way, especially from one city to another.

    motorway 是英式英文說的「高速公路」——城市和城市之間那種很寬、有好幾線道、可以開很快的大馬路，路上沒有紅綠燈，也沒有店家，只有交流道可以上下。這個字可以想成 motor（汽車、引擎）＋ way（路）長出來的：一條專門給汽車跑的路，所以旁邊沒有人行道，也不會有人騎腳踏車。同一種路，美式英文說 highway 或 freeway；英國人說 motorway，兩邊講的是同一件事。人或車「在高速公路上」用 on，例如 on the motorway。

    示範例句 · Example

    The speed limit on the motorway is 70 miles an hour.

    中文翻譯在這條高速公路上的速限是每小時七十英里。

    常見搭配

    • on the motorway

      在高速公路上

      travelling on this kind of road

      There were a lot of buses on the motorway this morning.

    • a motorway service station

      高速公路休息站／服務區

      a place beside a motorway where drivers can rest, eat, and buy petrol

      The motorway service station has a shop, a café, and clean toilets.

    • the speed limit on the motorway

      高速公路的速限

      the fastest speed the law allows on this road

      Leo's mum always checks the speed limit on the motorway.

    • a motorway junction

      高速公路交流道

      the place where you drive on to or off a motorway

      Take the next motorway junction and turn towards the airport.

    • take the motorway

      走高速公路

      to choose to travel by motorway

      It's quicker if we take the motorway.

    意思相近

    highwayfreewayexpresswayinterstatedual carriageway

    用法接近

    ring roadbypasstoll roadmain roadjunction

    意思相反

    laneside street

core核心畫面

From the word’s history

Compound of motor + way.

motor 加 way 組成。

Wiktionary

Picture a road built for one job only: moving cars fast over a long distance. It is very wide, with several lanes side by side, no traffic lights, no shops along the edge, no one crossing on foot — you get on, you drive, and you get off near another city. The word itself says it: a way made for motors.

可以想成一條「只為了跑得快」而蓋的路：很寬，好幾線車道並排，沒有紅綠燈、沒有路邊店家、沒有人行道，上了路就一直開，直到下一個交流道下來，往往已經到另一座城市。字面上也是這樣拆的——motor（汽車）＋ way（路），為汽車而設的路。英國說 motorway，美國多半說 highway 或 freeway，指的是同一種路。

motorways

意思相近

highwayfreewayexpresswayinterstatedual carriageway

用法接近

ring roadbypasstoll roadmain roadjunction

意思相反

laneside street

原始詞典資料2 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。

motorwaynoun/ˈməʊtəweɪ/

  • 1

    A highway with grade-separated crossings (rather than level crossings) and designed (and only permitted) for high-speed motor-traffic (in Europe motor vehicles with a higher speed limit than 40 km/h) running in two directions on one separate carriageway each.

    • All the R. R.'s of America will have to be furnished with a biking way and a motor way on each side of the rails.
    • Work of constructing the Texas Motorway, a stone highway which when completed will extend from Fort Worth to Del Rio, Tex., a distance of 500 miles, has been commenced and a section between 18 and 20 miles long running out from Glenrose, the county seat of Somervell County, has been completed.
  • 2

    A racetrack venue designated especially for the sport of auto racing.

    • In December, track operators replaced the crushed rock with brick, earning the motorway the nickname, Brickyard.
    • The 9-degree banking you see in the Speedway’s four turns is believed to be the first intentionally banked motorway in the United States.

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。