穿城而過的大路
把「穿得過去」放到一座城市的尺度上，就成了那條貫穿全城的主要幹道。
noun · C1
The main road that runs through a town, city or village - the wide street that people and traffic use to get from one side of the place to the other.
主要幹道；大馬路
核心畫面
You can think of a thoroughfare as a way you can enter at one end and come out at the other. The point is not what stands along it, but that it lets you pass. Make that picture big and it is the wide road that carries traffic right through a city. Make it small and it is a lane between two buildings that you can squeeze along. Put it on water and it is the channel a boat can slip through. Take it away and you get the board at the end of the lane that reads No Thoroughfare.
thoroughfare 可以想成一條「從這頭進去、從那頭出來」的路。重點不是路上有什麼，而是它讓你穿得過去。把這個…更多收起
thoroughfare 可以想成一條「從這頭進去、從那頭出來」的路。重點不是路上有什麼，而是它讓你穿得過去。把這個畫面放大，就是貫穿整座城市的那條大馬路；把它縮小，就是兩棟房子之間能走通的窄巷；把它放到水上，就是船能穿過去的水道；把它整個取消，就是巷口那塊寫著 No Thoroughfare 的牌子。From the word’s history
Middle English thurghfare comes from thorough- (an old form of through) plus fare (to go), so the word literally says going through. Old English þurhfaran, to travel through, sits behind the same idea.
中古英語寫作 thurghfare，由 thorough-（等於 through，穿過）加上 fare（走、行進）組成，字面就是「穿過去走」。古英文的 þurhfaran（穿越、走過去）背後是同一個想法，所以「穿過」才是這個字最底層的畫面，「大馬路」是後來長出來的。
Wiktionary entry for thoroughfare, supplied in packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:158770795:22399)
Three branches
通行本身，以及被擋住的通行
這一組把「路」拿掉，只留下「穿過去」這個動作，所以最貼近這個字原本的樣子。
noun · C2
The act of going through a place, or a narrow way that lets you go through it. This meaning is now rare and you meet it mostly on signs and in older writing.
通行；可穿過的通道
船走的水路
同一個「穿得過去」的畫面，只是把走路換成行船。
noun · C2
A stretch of water that is clear and deep enough for boats and ships to pass along, joining one body of water to another.
可通行的水道