| 释义 |
Examples:a plank road (built on trestles across the face of a cliff)—trunk line (of road, network etc)—the whole length (of a road or railway line)—(of a road) be tree-lined—plank road built along the side of a cliff—wind around (of a road etc)—twist and turn (of road or river)—winding (of road, river etc)—lit. (of road) winding and turning (idiom); speak in a roundabout way—described as the east-most end of the Silk road—(of a mountain road) twisting and turning—Marco Polo (1254-c. 1324), Venetian trader and explorer who traveled the Silk road China, author of Il Milione (Travels of Marco Polo)—sunset, the end of the road (idiom); in terminal decline—fork (of a tree, road, argument etc)—lit. the path exhausted, the end of the road (idiom); an impasse—along the sides of the road—fill the road (also fig. clamor, cries of complaint)—encircling the city (of walls, ring road etc)—Hexi Corridor (or Gansu Corridor), a string of oases running the length of Gansu, forming part of the Northern Silk Road—Yumen Pass, or Jade Gate, western frontier post on the Silk Road in the Han Dynasty, west of Dunhuang, in Gansu—clear the road (i.e. get rid of people for passage of royalty or VIP)—pot-holed and bumpy road (idiom); fig. full of disappointment and dashed hopes—in the middle of the road— |