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road noun—路 n (often used) 道 n (often used) 道路 n 公路 n Examples: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)—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—ravenous wolves block the road (idiom); wicked people in power—may refer Silk Road states or Alexandria or the Roman empire—road condition(s) (e.g. surface, traffic flow etc)—road show or promotional tour (for a product etc)—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)—Orchard Road, Singapore (shopping and tourist area)—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—you hit the high road, I'll cross the log bridge—person in power taking the capitalist road, a political label often pinned on cadres by the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution—lit. drive a lightweight chariot on a familiar road [idiom.]—the mountain road twists around each new peak [idiom.]—lit. there is no road the sky, nor door into the earth [idiom.]—ravenous wolves hold the road (idiom); wicked people in power— |