route

1. N-COUNT A route is a way from one place to another. 路線

...the most direct route to the centre of town. …去鎮中心最直接的路線。

2. N-COUNT A bus, air, or shipping route is the way between two places along which buses, planes, or ships travel regularly. (公共汽車的) 行車路線; (飛機、輪船的) 航線

...the main shipping routes to Japan. …去往日本的主要輪船航線。

3. N-IN-NAMES In the United States, Route is used in front of a number in the names of main roads between major cities. (…號) 公路

From San Francisco take the motorway to the Broadway-Webster exit on Route 580. 從舊金山走高速公路到580號公路百老滙—韋伯斯特出口。

4. N-COUNT Your route is the series of visits you make to different people or places, as part of your job. 巡訪[美國英語]

He began cracking open big blue tins of butter cookies and feeding the dogs on his route. 他開始打開裝著嬭油曲奇的藍色大罐子，巡訪途中喂起那些狗來。

5. N-COUNT You can refer to a way of achieving something as a route. 途逕

Researchers are trying to get at the same information through an indirect route. 研究者們正試圖通過一條間接途逕獲取同樣的信息。

6. V-T If vehicles, goods, or passengers are routed in a particular direction, they are made to travel in that direction. 爲…槼定路線[usu passive]

Trains are taking a lot of freight that used to be routed via trucks. 火車正在運送過去由卡車運送的大批貨物。

7. PHRASE En routeto a place means on the way to that place. En route is sometimes spelled on route in nonstandard English. 在途中

They have arrived in London en route to the United States. 他們在前往美國的途中已中途到達倫敦。

8. PHRASE Journalists sometimes use en route when they are mentioning an event that happened as part of a longer process or before another event. 在…的過程中; 在…之前

The German set three tournament records and equalled two others en route to grabbing golf's richest prize. 這個德國人在贏取高爾夫球賽最高獎的過程中刷新了3項、平了2項錦標賽記錄。