陳國詩的英文分享平台

關鍵字彙：

artery/ bump/ bypass/ collide/ congest/ crooked/ detour/ devious/ dislocation/ diverge/ jam/ labyrinth/ maze/ meander/ sinuous/ subside/ tortuous/ trace/ track/ traverse/ zigzag

1. 指成為「交通主要幹線」的道路、鐵路、河川等，用artery：

•The Dansuie River was a major traffic artery of northern Taiwan in the Manchu Dynasty.

2. 交通「阻塞」，用動詞congest或片語traffic jam；交通的「混亂」或「癱瘓」，用dislocation：

•Buses and cars congest every street in the center of Jakarta.

•You'll see traffic jams during rush hours.

•The storm caused considerable dislocation of traffic.

3. 交通狀況不好時的「改道」或「繞道」，用動詞bypass或片語make a detour。detour也是動詞，但使用較少：

•Let's bypass the town with all its traffic.

•The taxi driver bypassed the main street.

•They made a detour to avoid the busy center of the town.

•We had to make a detour because the main road was jammed.

4. 車輛的「互撞」，用bump或collide：

•The two cars bumped each other.

•Many people were hurt when the two buses collided on the corner.

5. 陸地、道路等的「塌陷」，用subside；兩條路的「分差」，用diverge；道路等「貫穿」或「橫越」某處，用traverse：

•The road tends to subside in the mountains.

•The paths diverge at the fork in the road.

•We have built highways that traverse the entire island.

6. 指路線像「迷宮」般複雜，用labyrinth或maze，前者也常做比喻用，意為「困惑難解的事物」：

•Steve and Helen were lost in the labyrinth of secret caves.

•She was lost for nearly one hour in a maze of narrow winding streets.

•He was often confused by a labyrinth of intellectual discussions.

7. 道路「蜿蜒的」，用sinuous、crooked、devious和tortuous；「蜿蜒」（而行）有動詞meander；這種「繞來繞去的道路」則是zigzag，但它有時也作類似形容詞的用法：

•There is a sinuous road among the mountains.

•Being a stranger in town, he inadvertently took a crooked road.

•Let's take this devious path to avoid other people.

•The road is so tortuous that it is unwise to go faster than twenty miles per hour.

•It is difficult to sail up the stream because of the way it meanders through the countryside.

•The girl meandered through the town, looking into shop windows.

•The car went in a zigzag.

•The kids ran in zigzags around the playground.

•The mountaineers went up a long zigzag path before they reached the top of the hill.

8. 行人、動物或車輛經過所留下的「足跡」或「車轍」叫trace或track：

•There was the trace/ track of a sleigh in the snow.