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单词 crossroad
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Examples from literature
  • At every crossroad he stopped and read an order.
  • Eventually we came back to the crossroad, and with a feeling of having been successful, I continued South with a confidence that I had not felt before.
  • Fifty yards ahead was a crossroad.
  • The street, dimly lighted by a couple of oil lamps swinging from gibbets at the corners of a crossroad, seemed to be peopled by shadows surreptitiously lurking in doorways.
  • We crept out of the city, but unfortunately at one of the dangerous crossroads our chauffeur mistook the route.

Examplesofcrossroad

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In autumn, the air movement is even better at thecrossroadinside the market than in the exterior streets.
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As a similar mediating device, the railroad topic forms an interesting parallel to the crossroads mythology in the blues.
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One of these songs particularly captures the association of the railroad with crossroads mythology by invoking the dilemma of decision-making.
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The township was famous for its horse fair and was situated at an important crossroads.
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It situates his once-famous depiction of savage politics as a premonitory rejection of the state at the crossroads of several traditions, long- and short-term.
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This double property (global and local) is in fact an important crossroads of knowledge flows in dialogue modelling.
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The crossroads at once symbolises freedom of movement, travel, and self-determination; the dilemma of the crossroads is that one must choose which path to follow.
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The transcriptions that we present are situated at the crossroads between analysis and creation.
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Language teacher education courses represent a crossroads of cultures as participants increasingly move about the world.
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However, at the current moment, attachment work is again at a crossroads.
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Yet the country stands at a crossroads, for the falling birthrate means it faces an unprecedented situation in the ratio of old to young.
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The idea of human rights stands at a crossroads.
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Research into psychosocial risk mechanisms is at a crossroads.
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As music soars above the temporal crossroads, it enables people to come together and reach better understandings of one another despite their political differences.
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In blues texts, the crossroads trope, like artistic and literary border crossings, represents mediation between dualities.
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