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road noun—路 n (often used) 道 n (often used) 道路 n 公路 n Examples:ravenous wolves hold the road (idiom); wicked people in power—lit. (of road) winding and turning (idiom); speak in a roundabout way—a plank road (built on trestles across the face of a cliff)—Nathu La (Himalayan pass on Silk Road between Tibet and Indian Sikkim)—described as the east-most end of the Silk road—three-dimensional road junction (i.e. involving fly-over bridges or underpass tunnels)—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—diverge from the main road, also figuratively—road condition(s) (e.g. surface, traffic flow etc)—lit. the path exhausted, the end of the road (idiom); an impasse—the Qinling plank road Shu, a historical mountain road from Shaanxi to Sichuan—fill the road (also fig. clamor, cries of complaint)—encircling the city (of walls, ring road etc)—lit. enemies on a narrow road (idiom); fig. an inevitable clash between opposing factions—old tea-horse road or southern Silk Road, dating back 6th century, from Tibet and Sichuan through Yunnan and Southeast Asia, reaching to Bhutan, Sikkim, India and beyond—Hexi Corridor (or Gansu Corridor), a string of oases running the length of Gansu, forming part of the Northern Silk Road—winding road (twisting and turning like a sheep's intestine)—broad and open road (idiom); fig. brilliant future prospects—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—road as twisty as sheep's intestine (idiom); narrow and winding road—you hit the high road, I'll cross the log bridge—the mountain road twists around each new peak [idiom.]—lit. drive a lightweight chariot on a familiar road [idiom.]—lit. there is no road the sky, nor door into the earth [idiom.]— |