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thoroughfare

/thur-oh-fair, -uh-fair, thuhr-/US // ˈθɜr oʊˌfɛər, -əˌfɛər, ˈθʌr- //UK // (ˈθʌrəˌfɛə) //

大道,通途,通路,通行道

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a road, street, or the like, that leads at each end into another street.
    • : a major road or highway.
    • : a passage or way through: no thoroughfare.
    • : a strait, river, or the like, affording passage.

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Examples

  • The Park Service also said the Memorial Bridge and parts of major thoroughfares downtown, including Constitution, Pennsylvania and Independence avenues, would be blocked.

  • Its main thoroughfare, 3rd Street, cuts through both the business and entertainment districts in town.

  • We ducked into the woods behind our house in Vermont, crossed the neighbor’s field, and emerged onto a quiet gravel track that was once a thoroughfare to a copper mine.

  • In New York City, the Metro Transit Authority trialed a system on major thoroughfares with a reported rate of 0% accuracy.

  • Unlike many clubs, the Stonewall Inn, which opened in March 1967, was on a main thoroughfare instead of a side street.

  • Davis was one of the last ones out and hurried to follow the other hostages, who were being marched down the thoroughfare.

  • On a busy Manhattan thoroughfare, the artist Andy Golub painted the bodies of nude models.

  • “Libya in general is a major thoroughfare, the I-95 for foreign fighters into Syria from Africa,” the U.S. defense official said.

  • The Border Patrol's Tucson sector, long a major thoroughfare for illegal immigration, stands out as an outlier.

  • In Hebron, Israeli settlers occupy the main thoroughfare and commonly attack Palestinians.

  • Newhall Street, and a new thoroughfare made in continuation of Bread Street.

  • A cross-road from the Black Caon road would place them in the thoroughfare that ran past the house.

  • Matt took the cross-road on two wheels, and, half a minute later, lurched into the main thoroughfare in the same way.

  • But in the great thoroughfare the tide of vehicles and foot passengers was perceptibly thinning.

  • "It is a crowded thoroughfare," the man remarked nervously, looking up and down Shaftesbury Avenue.

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