thoroughfare

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈθʌɹəfɛː/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A passage; a way through. countable,uncountable
    — “I ask you,” cried Lloyd George in 1909. “Are we to have all the ways of reform, financial and social, blocked simply by a notice board: ‘No thoroughfare. By order of Nathanial Rothschild’?”
  2. A road open at both ends or connecting one area with another; a highway or main street. countable,uncountable
    — Mr. Roscoe, on the contrary, has claimed none of the accorded privileges of talent. He has shut himself up in no garden of thought, no elysium of fancy; but has gone forth into the highways and thoroughfares of life; […].
  3. The act of going through; passage; travel, transit. uncountable
    — The sign leading to the other carriage reads: No thoroughfare.
  4. An unobstructed waterway allowing passage for ships. countable,uncountable

词形变化

thoroughfares plural thorofare alternative throughfare alternative thoroughfair alternative,obsolete thorowfair alternative,obsolete

词源

From Middle English thurghfare, corresponding to thorough- (“through”) + fare. Compare Old English þurhfaran (“to go through, go over, traverse, pierce, pass through, pass beyond, transcend, penetrate”). Compare also Old English þurhfær (“inner secret place”), German Durchfahrt (“passage through, thoroughfare”).
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