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highroad

/hahy-rohd/US // ˈhaɪˌroʊd //UK // (ˈhaɪˌrəʊd) //

高路,高速公路,高道,高铁

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 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.