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/ˈmoʊtərweɪ/ · /ˈməʊtəweɪ/
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.
高速公路
複數 motorways
核心畫面
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…更多收起
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。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。
motorwaynoun/ˈməʊtəweɪ/
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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.
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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.
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。