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A taxiway is the paved road at an airport that aircraft drive along on their own wheels to get between the terminal gates and the runway. Keep the two apart in your mind: the runway is where a plane takes off and lands at high speed, and the taxiway is the slower connecting road that leads to and from it. When you are sitting in a plane and it moves slowly for several minutes, turning corners, sometimes stopping and waiting — that is the taxiway, and the verb for that movement is 'to taxi'. A big airport has many taxiways, each with a letter name (Taxiway A, Taxiway Bravo) that the control tower uses to tell each pilot which way to go. It is a technical word from aviation, so you will meet it in air-safety news, in flight simulators, and from pilots and airport staff rather than in ordinary talk — but any who wants to understand what the captain is saying will find it useful.
滑行道(機場裡飛機滑行到跑道的通道;跑道是 runway)
組成taxi + way. Here 'taxi' is the verb for an aircraft moving slowly along the ground under its own power, and '-way' is the ordinary English ending for a route: highway, railway, walkway, driveway.
原始詞典資料1 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。
taxiwaynoun
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aeronauticsaerospaceaviationA road or path within an airport designated for the taxiing of aircraft connecting the runways with ramps, hangars, terminals and other facilities.
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。