path

英 [pɑːθ] 美[pæθ]

n. 道路；小路；轨道

近义词 way route trail track road line

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英英释义

1. a course of conduct;: "the path of virtue"; "we went our separate ways"; "our paths in life led us apart"; "genius usually follows a revolutionary path"

2. a way especially designed for a particular use

3. an established line of travel or access

4. a line or route along which something travels or moves;: "the hurricane demolished houses in its path"; "the track of an animal"; "the course of the river"

同义词辨析

path, road, way, street, highway, avenue, motorway, route, lane, pavement, trail

这些名词均有"路"之意。

path：多指由人或动物在田间、小丘或树丛中经常走动而踩出的小路，也指公园或花园等供人走的小径。

road：指连接两地间供行人或车辆使用的广阔平坦的大道，多指公路，也可用于引申意义。

way：普通用词，含义广泛，可指各种路、道或通道，也可指抽象的道路。

street：尤指城市中的道路，往往一侧或两侧有高大建筑物；还可指城市小镇、近郊可供人、车、马行走的平坦道路。

highway：通常指市区外可以通行各种机动车辆的交通干线。

avenue：在美国，指城市中一侧或两侧建筑物林立的大道或马路；而在英国则常指通住乡村大住宅、私人大庄园或两旁栽树的道路。

motorway：高速公路，新词，特指为车辆快速通行而修的专线，美语为freeway或expressway。

route：指从此处通往彼处的路线、路程等。

lane：指农村或城镇的小道或小径，也指小巷。

pavement：在英国，多指街道两旁的人行道，而美国人常用sidewalk表示人行道。

trail：指人或兽在森林、荒野或山中踩出的小径或崎岖小道。

词组搭配

the path of least resistance

见 resistance

考试真题

Where are you in the cycle of renewal: Are you actively preserving the present, or selectively forgetting the past, or boldly creating the future? What advice would Leah give you to move you ahead on your journey? Once we're on the path of growth, we can continually move through the seasons of transformation and renewal.

Soupios say following the 10 Golden Rules based on ancient wisdom can guide us to the path of the good life where we stop living as onlookers and become engaged and happier human beings.

He was saving the life of a 9-month-old boy who was blown into the path of an oncoming subway train by a high wind.

Dr.Carson was headed down a path of self-destruction until a critical moment in his youth.

The lengthening path to adulthood appears exacerbated (恶化) by parental involvement in the college years.

This is a game in which you indicate with your finger the way through a complex system of passages or paths

But do Americans still believe in that path, and if they do, is it attainable?

He was saving the life of a 9-month-old boy who was blown into the path of an oncoming subway train by a high wind.

In November 2015, the Netherlands completed a 229-foot-long bike path paved with solar panels as a test for future projects.

Once we're on the path of growth, we can continually move through the seasons of transformation and renewal.

Different upbringings set children on different paths and can deepen socioeconomic divisions, especially because education is strongly linked to earnings.

But will such contests, which are overwhelmingly dominated by Asian and white students from middle-class and affluent families become any more diverse? Many social and cultural factors play roles in determining which promising students get on the path toward international math recognition.

Like other students new to the intimidating higher-education world, she often struggled on her path to college.

The Swedes can certainly take a lesson from the United States and look for ways to clear a path for their ambitious female careerists.

Down that path lies economic decline.

Sometimes, the best route to fulfilment is the path of more resistance

s in the United States were expected to pursue a career path in academia (学术界).

scientists can use an IDP to identify and navigate an effective career path

Although surveys reveal the IDP process to be useful, trainees report a need for additional resources to help them identify a long-term career path and complete an IDP.

It promises a long-term career path

Contrast this middle path with America and Europe, which have each gone ideologically over-board in their own ways.

A few sensible federal measures could put the country back on the right path

I'll give you a free path so that you can try out the facilities before you decide.

In fact, lower-tier school alumni networks are arguably stronger, because fellow alumni recognize that you didn't necessarily have an easy path to follow.

It really made it possible for us to continue along the path toward modern humans in Africa.

It's standing in the path of what Schumpeter called a gale of creative destruction.

like other students new to the intimidating higher-education world, she often struggled on her path to college.

Many social and cultural factors play roles in determining which promising students get on the path toward international math recognition.

An avalanche once closed the path, killing 63 people.

Another challenge for more than a million of the most qualified farm workers and managers is a non-existent path to citizenship.

At least, workers wouldn't have needed to carry cattle fat or water to smooth the paths.

Because less preparation on paths is needed for rolling.

But some materials slow and scatter (散射) light, bouncing it away from its original path.

He knew the path his life was now taking.

I find a clean mountain, with toilets at camps and along the paths.

I'm walking on a path in the forest in the central African republic.

It is eating all the vegetables and destroying everything in its path.

It is unwise to expect your child to follow your path.

It's widely believed that the stone blocks were moved to the pyramid site by sliding them on smooth paths.

Researchers found small amounts of fat, as well as a large amount of stone and the remains of paths.

The exhibition follows a path of time and subject with the visitor exiting through the brain.

The most popular view is that egyptian workers slid the blocks along smooth paths.

The path to dawson was covered with thirty feet of wet snow that could fall without warming.

The researchers found they could easily roll the block along different kinds of paths.

Then they would have dragged them along paths.

Then we crossed paths at a church fund-raiser.

There are solutions that could light a path toward a more sustainable and fair farm economy, but farmers can't clumsily put them together before us.

They calculated that rolling the block required about as much force as moving it along a slippery path.

To make the work easier, workers may have lubricated the paths either with wet clay or with the fat from cattle.

Unable to see far, he accidentally turned off the path.

With farmers over the age of 65 outnumbering farmers younger than 35 by six to one, and with two-thirds of the nation's farmland in need of a new farmer, we must clear the path for talented people willing to grow the nation's food.

But brain researchers have discovered that when we consciously develop new habits, we create parallel synaptic paths, and even entirely new brain cells, that can jump our trains of thought onto new, innovative tracks.

There is just one path for a lawyer in most American states: a four-year undergraduate degree in some unrelated subject, then a three-year law degree at one of 200 law schools authorized by the American Bar Association and an expensive preparation for the bar exam.

President Trump has underlined fossil fuels – especially coal – as the path to economic growth.

Progressives often support diversity mandates as a path to equality and a way to level the playing field.

There is just one path for a lawyer in most American states: a four-year undergraduate degree in some unrelated subject, then a three-year law degree at one of 200 law schools authorized by the American Bar Association and an expensive preparation for the

实用场景例句

a concrete path: 混凝土小路

the garden path: 花园小径

Follow the path through the woods.: 沿着这条小路穿过树林。

to walk along a path: 沿小径前行

The path led up a steep hill.: 小路通向一座陡峭的山丘。

a coastal path: 海边的小路

He threw himself into the path of an oncoming vehicle.: 他冲入迎面有汽车驶来的路中。

The avalanche forced its way down the mountain, crushing everything in its path .: 雪崩冲下山来，摧毁了沿途的一切。

Three men blocked her path.: 三个男人挡住了她的去路。

a career path: 职业道路

the path to success: 成功之道

We followed the path along the clifftops...: 我们沿着悬崖顶上的小路走。

Feet had worn a path in the rock...: 经年的踩踏在岩石上形成了一条小径。

A group of reporters blocked his path...: 一群记者堵住了他的去路。

She did not notice the man until he moved into her path.: 直到那个男人拦住她的去路，她才注意到他。

He stepped without looking into the path of a reversing car.: 一辆汽车正在倒车，他看都没看它倒向哪里就一脚迈了出去。

...people who live near airports or under the flight path of airplanes...: 住在机场附近或者航线下方的人们

The opposition appear to have chosen the path of cooperation rather than confrontation...: 反对派似乎已经选择了合作而不是对抗的路线。

He promised that within 100 days he would put the country on the path to economic recovery.: 他许诺在100天内让国家走上经济复兴之路。

The Church of England put a serious obstacle in the path of women who want to become priests.: 英国国教在妇女成为牧师的道路上设置了重大障碍。

It was highly unlikely that their paths would cross again...: 他们再次偶遇的可能性非常小。

Over the years, Yul and Kirk had crossed paths many times.: 几年来，尤尔和柯克偶遇了很多次。

Don't stray too far from the correct path.: 不要离开正道太远了.

Now that she has become famous, all sorts of people will be beating a path to her door.: 现在她已经成名, 她家门庭若市.

Our educational reform was steadily led onto the correct path.: 我们的教学改革慢慢上轨道了.

The path is too narrow for two people to walk together.: 这条路太窄,两个人不能并行.

中文词源

path 小路，小径

来自古英语path,小路，小径，来自Proto-Germanic*pathaz,来自PIE*pent,走，经过，踩踏，词源同find,pons.可能进一步来自PIE*pete,展开，来自PIE*ped,脚，词源同foot,pedestal.

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〔近音词〕经过(pass)小路(path)

双语例句

1. Stewart was trying to clear a path for the stretcher.: 斯图尔特在努力给担架开路。

2. The path serves as an approach to the boat house.: 这条小路通往船屋。

3. I narrowly missed a cyclist who wobbled into my path.: 我险些被一个摇摇晃晃迎面而来的骑车人撞倒。

4. She did not notice the man until he moved into her path.: 直到那个男人拦住她的去路，她才注意到他。

5. He made his way along a well-trodden path towards the shed.: 他顺着一条常有人走的小路走向小屋。

英文词源

path: path: [OE] Path is a West Germanic word of uncertain ultimate origin. Its cousins German pfad and Dutch pad point back to a prehistoric West Germanic ancestor *patha, but no one is too sure where this came from (one possibility is that it was borrowed somehow from Greek pátos ‘path’). The verb pad ‘tread, walk’ and the -pad of footpad come from the same source.
=> pad
path (n.): Old English paþ, pæþ "path, track," from West Germanic *patha- (cognates: Old Frisian path, Middle Dutch pat, Dutch pad, Old High German pfad, German Pfad "path"), of uncertain origin. The original initial -p- in a Germanic word is an etymological puzzle. Don Ringe ("From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic," Oxford 2006) describes it as "An obvious loan from Iranian ..., clearly borrowed after Grimmâs Law had run its course." Watkins says the word is "probably borrowed (? via Scythian) from Iranian *path-," from PIE root *pent- "to tread, go, pass" (source of Avestan patha "way;" see find (v.)), but this is too much of a stretch for OED and others. In Scotland and Northern England, commonly a steep ascent of a hill or in a road.

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