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单词 thoroughfare
释义
thoroughfare
noun[C]
formal
uk
/ˈθʌr.ə.feər/us
/ˈθɝː.ə.fer//ˈθɝː.oʊ.fer/
amainroadforpublicuse or apassagethroughsomewhere
大街，通衢，大道
no thoroughfare
Onroadsigns, no thoroughfaremeansnoentryor do not go in.
禁止通行
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Roads: rural & suburban
  • back road
  • beltway
  • boreen
  • bypass
  • byway
  • dirt track
  • feeder
  • highway
  • main road
  • rat run
  • relief road
  • ring road
  • service road
  • stock route
  • the highways and bywaysidiom
  • through traffic
  • throughway
  • thruway
  • trunk road
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Roads: lights, signs & markings on roads
(Definition ofthoroughfarefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

thoroughfare| American Dictionary

thoroughfare
noun[C]
us
/ˈθɜr·əˌfeər,ˈθʌr-/
aroadthatconnectsto otherroads:
Iliverighton themainthoroughfare.
(Definition ofthoroughfarefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofthoroughfare

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The property was located at the intersection of two busy thoroughfares.
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Only a few side streets intersect the thoroughfares.
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Increased mobility had likewise prompted the founding or the expansion of charitable institutions along the main thoroughfares.
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The black townships were built as grids, with wide thoroughfares, making it difficult for a guerrilla to find shelter.
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The town gates were set in the walls where these principal thoroughfares made their exit.
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An important consequence of vehicle growth has been to diminish traffic speed on the capital city's major thoroughfares.
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In the domain of work, "street subsistence workers" quietly take over public thoroughfares to conduct their business on the vast parallel economy.
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The day room and main passageways were kept free of obstacles, and larger mobility aids such as walking frames were stored away from thoroughfares.
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They stood outside the important economic centres, and far from the major thoroughfares.
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In this case a child's shortest distance to school along public thoroughfares was just less than 3 miles.
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As a consequence, monuments were in many cases rebuilt, while old thoroughfares were suppressed and new ones created.
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In this way some inn yards have gradually become public thoroughfares and others may be seen at various stages of transition, while some have been closed and kept private.
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To cater to the growing number of immigrants, a range of popular restaurants, workers' hostels, and bathhouses started to crowd the main thoroughfares of these areas.
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The invention of back stairs and corridors rendered the family rooms increasingly private, since they now needed to be entered only for specific purposes, and no longer functioned as thoroughfares.
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The cohesion promoted by these shared spaces and architecture was destroyed by the civil war, however, as public squares and major thoroughfares became battle-lines between factions.
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