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turnpike

/turn-pahyk/US // ˈtɜrnˌpaɪk //UK // (ˈtɜːnˌpaɪk) //

匝道,大道,岔路口,岔道

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a high-speed highway, especially one maintained by tolls.
    • : a barrier set across such a highway to stop passage until a toll has been paid; tollgate.

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Examples

  • We are driving down the New Jersey Turnpike on a raw Sunday morning in March.

  • He was heading toward home on the Pennsylvania Turnpike when he found himself pulling over.

  • Jersey Turnpike (v.)—to perform a dance move in which one jams his/her rear end against a man's crotch and then bends over.

  • In the "good old coaching days" the turnpike tolls paid on a coach running daily from here to London amounted to £1,428 per year.

  • The place was a field, the first beyond the turnpike gate, and within a mile of the city.

  • A country girl, riding by a turnpike-road without paying toll, the gate-keeper hailed her and demanded his fee.

  • Sixty, nay fifty, years ago, there were six toll-houses and turnpike bars between London and Portsmouth.

  • Chicot stopped at a turnpike, and asked the man if he had seen three travelers pass on mules.

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