1A black viscous mixture of hydrocarbons obtained naturally or as a residue from petroleum distillation. It is used for road surfacing and roofing.

1. 1.1Australian informal A tarred road surface.
   〈澳，非正式〉柏油路
   a kilometre and a half of bitumen

   一公里半的柏油路。

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   • The skate set-up included a metal three piece mini, gnarly street section of bitumen and wooden ramps and the mass indoor park course, which was gold.
   • There are thousands of outback journeys in Australia - on bitumen and dirt, across deserts and mountains, along the coast and inland, long and short, tough and easy.
   • That's in the dry season: In the wet roads are flooded from door to door, so pavement, verge, drain and bitumen merge into a seamless black scum where floating objects best remain unscrutinised.
   • The grandstands, which ring the southern and western sides of the arena, are old fashioned red brick, with crumbling black bitumen leading to the fence line.
   • Friday morning's ride was sedate after the thrills of the previous day starting with a relaxed ride on bitumen from Combienbar to Club terrace and a stop at the local hall for tea and cakes.
   • The road becomes a strip of bitumen flanked at first by banana trees, then by an array of she-oaks.
   • It is a seriously windy and interesting piece of bitumen.
   • Pamela Brown said as she and her partner drove south on the Stuart Highway, a big white vehicle had pulled from the side of the road onto the bitumen, heading north.
   • Behind the wall's remains she could see the streets, littered with the burnt-out husks of cars and buses, many of which lay on their sides on the broken bitumen.
   • Likewise, Augie March, Archie Roach and Rubie Hunter ride the burning bitumen in Buddy Miller style searching for the Minister of Planets somewhere off the Newell.
   • Parramatta residents were treated to the thud of 600 boots on bitumen, the purr of diesels from six tracked armoured personnel carriers, the drone of engines of two RAAF.
   • The Research Station, established in 1957, has four laboratories, which deal with soils and foundation engineering, concrete and structures, bitumen and traffic.
   • Most of us live in stone houses and aspire to live in converted stone barns, we walk on stone pavements and often drive on roads where beneath the black bitumen lie beautifully dressed stone setts.
   • Riders were hoping for a fast ride on bitumen for the last leg of the trip to Marlo, then back to Orbost, but a howling head wind and light rain changed those plans.
   • An exception is where scrap rubber is incorporated using high percentages in bitumen as scrap rubber reduces road-tyre noise.
   • A dusty street would have been ideal, but bitumen was acceptable.
   • Once out of the prelude stage in Alice the ride avoided any bitumen and wound its way through Arltunga, across the Plenty, deep into north Queensland before arriving at Karanda and the downhill drop into Cairns.
   • These roots burrow through bitumen as if it were butter, and often the trees have to be expensively removed before they completely ruin the driveway.
   • Kids catapult along bitumen like suckers for punishment.
   • The playground would not affect the streetscape as ‘we would rip up bitumen and put down turf and shrubs.’