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A pathway is a path or a track that people walk along, often outdoors, like a pathway through a park. It's also used to talk about a way of reaching a goal in a more general, figurative sense — like 'a pathway to success' or 'a career pathway,' meaning the steps or route that lead you toward something.
小徑；途徑
組成A compound of 'path' + 'way' — both parts already mean a route to somewhere, put together for emphasis.
原始詞典資料3 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。
pathwaynoun/ˈpɑːθˌweɪ/
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A footpath or other path or track.
- follow the pathway
- go down the pathway
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biochemistrybiologychemistryA sequence of biochemical compounds, and the reactions linking them, that describe a process in metabolism or catabolism.
- On the other hand, it can be observed that, with small exceptions, the S. pneumonia strains are the only Streptococci equipped with homospermidine biosynthesis and pyruvate oxidation pathways, which have been found to be involved in pathogenicity mechanisms [50 ] and in the counteraction of oxidative stress [51 ].
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A course of action.
- the pathway to success
- Similarly, although both clinical pathway and case management programmes seek to improve system efficiency, critical pathways concentrate on high-volume conditions with high costs in which care is generally patternable […]
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。