highway
noun [ C ] US or formal UK uk/ˈhaɪ.weɪ/ us/ˈhaɪ.weɪ/
A2 公路（尤指连接城镇的重要公路）
a public road, especially an important road that joins cities or towns together
a coastal/interstate highway 滨海／州际公路
See also: superhighway
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- The photograph showed a lonely stretch of Arizona highway.
- The senator called the new highways proposal "...a fraud and a boondoggle that the taxpayer should not tolerate".
- Most of the old road - which stretched from Chicago to Los Angeles - has been superseded by the great Interstate highways.
- The coach took the interstate highway.
- The highway connects New York and Philadelphia.
Idiom
the highways and bywaysidiom literary 大街小巷
the roads and paths of a place
They travelled the highways and byways of Britain. 他们游遍了英国的大街小巷。