highroad
/hahy-rohd/US // ˈhaɪˌroʊd //UK // (ˈhaɪˌrəʊd) //
高路,高速公路,高道,高铁
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : Chiefly British. a main road; highway.
- : an easy or certain course: the highroad to success.
- : an honorable or ethical course.
Examples
But the much-tried lady was on the highroad toward trouble-borrowing and bound to reach her end.
Near a large town, along the broad highroad walked an old sick man.
On the other side of this she came into a lane which led out on a highroad.
Then, pulling at the collar, he hauled off his load after him along the highroad.
To the south was a country filled with slaves, who looked to Harper's Ferry as the highroad to freedom.
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