Detour
['diːtʊə] or ['ditʊr]
解释:
(noun.) a roundabout road (especially one that is used temporarily while a main route is blocked).
(verb.) travel via a detour.
芭芭拉校对--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A turning; a circuitous route; a deviation from a direct course; as, the detours of the Mississippi.
编辑:马里奥
同义词及近义词:
n. [Fr.] Circuitous route, indirect way, roundabout way.
艾德里安整理
解释:
n. a winding: a circuitous way.
格里菲思校对
例句:
- Thence he made a detour from his left with a view of reaching Reams's Station (supposing it to be in our possession). 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- The courier from Valladolid to Lisbon was ordered to make a detour, so as to take Jarandilla in his route, and bring supplies for the royal table. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- This DETOUR has been entirely for our benefit, then? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
黛安娜校对