Detour
['diːtʊə] or ['ditʊr]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a roundabout road (especially one that is used temporarily while a main route is blocked).
(verb.) travel via a detour.
芭芭拉校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A turning; a circuitous route; a deviation from a direct course; as, the detours of the Mississippi.
編輯:马里奥
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [Fr.] Circuitous route, indirect way, roundabout way.
艾德里安整理
解釋/意思:
n. a winding: a circuitous way.
格里菲思校對
例句/造句/用法:
- 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·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- 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·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- This DETOUR has been entirely for our benefit, then? 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
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