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路
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Definitions
- 1. road
- 2. journey
- 3. route
- 4. line (bus etc)
- 5. sort; kind
Example Sentences
1 shown別過馬 路 ！
Sentence data courtesy of Tatoeba.org.
Words Containing 路
to be estranged
to turn back
see 行萬里路，讀萬卷書|行万里路，读万卷书[xíng wàn lǐ lù , dú wàn juàn shū]
to guide
(civil engineering) cutting (for a railway or highway)
escape route
the Silk Road
intersection (of roads)
distant
everything is unfamiliar
Lanzhou-Xinjiang railway
to outflank and attack from the rear
the mountain road twists around each new peak (idiom)
the road one must follow or take
the road one must follow or take
racing bicycle; road bike
track (railroad, streetcar etc)
veined pattern
streetcar
routing (in computer networks)
lit. the path exhausted, the end of the road (idiom); an impasse
Ji Lu (542-480 BC), disciple of Confucius 孔夫子[kǒng fū zǐ], also known as 子路[zǐ lù]
electric circuit
Ludwig (name)
a step away
Union Pacific Railroad
see 林蔭道|林荫道[lín yìn dào]
value added network
Suhua Highway, coastal road in northern Taiwan, built on the side of cliffs above the Pacific Ocean
local area network
halfway
understood by everyone (idiom); well known
incoming road
see 買路錢|买路钱[mǎi lù qián]
Pilgrim's Progress, 1678 novel by John Bunyan (first Chinese translation 1851)
a passer-by
lit. Cheng Yaojin ambushes the enemy (saying)
a way out (lit. and fig.)
Reuters group plc
side street
lit. Sima Zhao's intentions are obvious to everyone (idiom)
Ranghulu district of Daqing city 大慶|大庆[dà qìng], Heilongjiang
stretch of road
quick-witted
public switched telephone network
to live an exhausting journey
road construction
Lucifer (Satan's name before his fall in Jewish and Christian mythology)
to find a path
to make way (for sth)
sequence of movements in martial arts
anonymous state-sponsored Internet commentator
ring road
telephone network
the hardships of beginning an undertaking (idiom)
the Silk Road
way of doing sth
routing protocols
to travel a thousand miles beats reading a thousand books
Reuter's Financial Glossary
road or pavement laid with flagstones
bollard
the mass line, CCP term for Party policy aimed at broadening and cultivating contacts with the masses
switched network
without a retreat route
method
printed circuit board
everything will turn out all right (idiom)
network node interface
Louis Pierre Althusser (1918-1990), Marxist philosopher
network operating system
lit. to toss a stone to find out what's ahead (idiom)
road sign
Lunan district of Tangshan city 唐山市[táng shān shì], Hebei
Luther (name)
Nanjing St., large commercial street in Shanghai
Canton-Hankou Railway, linking Guangzhou and Wuchang, incorporated since 1957 into the Jing-Guang Railway 京廣鐵路|京广铁路[jīng guǎng tiě lù]
digital subscriber line (DSL)
(civil engineering) roadbed
to cross (a street)
hallelujah (loanword)
to start on a journey
(pejorative) as detestable as each other; birds of a feather; cut from the same cloth
waterway
to go the same way
Lutheran church
the way back
land route
roadside
curb
Louis or Lewis (name)
street
stumbling block
LAN technology
(idiom) dead end
public telephone network
to take the back roads
to pass by or through
Gigabit Ethernet
Louisiana, US state
uphill road
divergent path
circuit breaker
to pave (with paving stones)
road rage
Eighth Route Army, the larger of the two major Chinese communist forces fighting the Japanese in the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
elevated road
(Internet slang) to go from being indifferent to being a big fan
JingJiu (Beijing-Kowloon) railway
Lubei district of Tangshan city 唐山市[táng shān shì], Hebei
Shanghai-Nanjing Railway, a.k.a. Huning Railway
to take a shortcut
Lamp in the Side Street, novel by Qing dynasty writer Li Lüyuan 李綠園|李绿园[lǐ Lu:4 yuán]
Qinghai-Tibet Highway
staple goods
Coloane, an island of Macao
(coll.) going on foot
communication line
trade route
intranet
Jerusalem
Balochi (ethnic group of Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan)
through road
Fanlu Township in Chiayi County 嘉義縣|嘉义县[jiā yì xiàn], west Taiwan
broadcast network
along the way; on the way
Himeji city in Hyōgo prefecture 兵庫縣|兵库县, Japan
printed circuit board
(feng shui) street layout in which the line of a road runs toward a house (as at a T-intersection), regarded as unfavorable for the occupants of the house
lexical route
see 一路貨色|一路货色[yī lù huò sè]
Qinghai-Tibet railway
Ethernet
integrated circuit
a vicious tyranny rules the land
tarred road
mountain road
network environment
ring road
the way one is following
memory circuit
road to ruin; course of action from which there is no turning back
crossing
along the way
Network Rail (UK railway organization)
highway
tarred road
fork in the road
person with a poor sense of direction
road surface
to lead the way; to guide; to show the way
Gospel according to St Luke
Himeji-jō, castle complex in Himeji, Hyōgo prefecture 兵庫縣|兵库县, Japan
Lazarus (Protestant transliteration)
Lutheran church
coronary bypass operation
lit. to meet face to face on a narrow path (idiom)
Jing-Guang (Beijing-Guangzhou) Railway
network node
driving test
no way out
computer network
lit. centipede's path
see 行萬里路，讀萬卷書|行万里路，读万卷书[xíng wàn lǐ lù , dú wàn juàn shū]
piping (for water, oil, etc)
Baoji-Chengdu Railway
paved path
familiar
to go downhill
Reuters News Agency
to walk
to encourage the free airing of views (idiom)
the whole journey
netherworld
Canadian Pacific Railway
to open up a path
Luqiao district of Taizhou city 台州市[tāi zhōu shì], Zhejiang
(bird species of China) Ludlow's fulvetta (Fulvetta ludlowi)
Himeji city in Hyōgo prefecture 兵庫縣|兵库县, Japan
short circuit
Guangdong and Kowloon railway
Heaven never bars one's way (idiom); don't despair and you will find a way through.
Integrated Services Digital Network; ISDN
Fanlu Township in Chiayi County 嘉義縣|嘉义县[jiā yì xiàn], west Taiwan
thoroughfare
suitable
link layer
to lose the way
digital network
road closure
road
to repair a road
to hasten on with one's journey
stratagem; method; approach
to leave oneself a way out
correct line (i.e. the party line)
lit. for enemies, the road is narrow (idiom)
a way out
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the thirty-fifth president of Brazil
nowhere to go
railroad
desperate getaway (from a battlefield)
sloping road
to be at an impasse (idiom)
to stroll around the streets (esp. of a young couple)
wide area network
to have a pleasant journey
application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC)
to give directions
crossroads
winding road
defile; narrow passage
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), American clergyman and civil rights activist
Beijing-Harbin railway
to make a detour
lit. to intervene when one sees an injustice (idiom)
this road is blocked
St Louis, large city in eastern Missouri
part (in one's hair)
Louis or Lewis (name)
circular road
Permanent Virtual Circuit
downhill road
Ranghulu district of Daqing city 大慶|大庆[dà qìng], Heilongjiang
on the road
lit. no one picks up lost articles in the street (idiom)
Integrated Service Digital Network
money extorted by bandits in exchange for safe passage; illegal toll
minor road
street sign; road sign; street nameplate
curb
stranger
Pathfinder, NASA spacecraft sent to Mars in 1977
route
dedicated network
roadblock
to return
Lucifer (Satan's name before his fall in Jewish and Christian mythology)
to use social connections
to meet (sb) by chance on the way somewhere
Luzhu or Luchu township in Kaohsiung county 高雄縣|高雄县[gāo xióng xiàn], southwest Taiwan
see 山不轉水轉|山不转水转[shān bù zhuàn shuǐ zhuàn]
to cross the street
Robert Louis Stevenson (novelist), author of Treasure Island 金銀島|金银岛[jīn yín dǎo]
Balochistan (Pakistan)
zigzag road
lit. to follow one road until dark (idiom)
hiking trail
lit. when we get to the mountain, there'll be a way through (idiom)
Zi Lu (542-480 BC), disciple of Confucius 孔夫子[kǒng fū zǐ], also known as Ji Lu 季路[jì lù]
Qinghai-Tibet Railway
sidewalk
network infrastructure
by the way
Cyprus
Karakorum Highway, linking Pakistan and Xinjiang
a way to make a living
network service
line
toll (fee for using a road)
to ask for directions
a bridle path
promenade
road condition(s) (e.g. surface, traffic flow etc)
all roads lead to Rome
the right way
to take an indirect route
(idiom) to take matters into one's own hands
labor
to block sb's path
heterogeneous network
all the way
route
Switched Virtual Circuit
road direction
paving
data link layer
neural network (artificial or biological)
steamroller
dirt road
Jiaonan-Jinan railway
router (computing)
familiar way
avenue
Lunan Yizu Autonomous County in Yunnan
itinerary
digital circuit
just as distance determines the stamina of a horse, so does time reveal a person's true heart (proverb)
data link
subway
scheme
road network
passer-by
(coll.) unorthodox (method etc)
wireless network
unidentified origin
(literary) stranger
ravenous wolves block the road (idiom); wicked people in power
dead end; impasse
extranet
Book of Ruth
closed-circuit television
network platform
livelihood
(road or railway) embankment
expressway
line of thought; way of thinking
long distance network
Cotai, portmanteau term referring to the islands of 路環|路环[lù huán] (Coloane) and 氹仔[dàng zǎi] (Taipa) in Macau
clue
way of proceeding
switch to a job one was not trained for
to have no alternative (idiom)
roads are slippery due to rain (idiom)
Marlboro (cigarette)
see 外地[wài dì]
odometer
Port Louis, capital of Mauritius
army itinerary; route of march
to follow the path to one's own doom (idiom)
to lead the way
core network
fellow traveler
see 林蔭道|林荫道[lín yìn dào]
shunt circuit
Sixth ring road (Beijing), opened in 2008
lit. there is no road to the sky, nor door into the earth (idiom)
pioneer; trailblazer
to travel
Belt and Road Initiative, Chinese government plan to provide finance and engineering expertise to build infrastructure across Eurasia and northeast Africa, unveiled in 2013
Luqiao district of Taizhou city 台州市[tāi zhōu shì], Zhejiang
logical link control
Reuters (news agency)
data link connection identifier (DLCI)
to be in the way; to block the path
printed circuit
route map; (lit. and fig.) roadmap
path
travel expenses
Louisiana, US state
Internet
logical thinking
gorge
familiar road
virtual circuit
see 半路殺出個程咬金|半路杀出个程咬金[bàn lù shā chū gè chéng yǎo jīn]
Jiangsu-Gansu railway
Knowledge comes from books and from experience of the world. (idiom)
pointless trip
(sports) trajectory of the ball
see 邪道[xié dào]
Land Rover
road tax
dead end
link
to seek help from social connections
calorie (loanword)
the more friends you have, the more options you have in life (idiom)
to jaywalk
road race
road roller
road along which the emperor's carriage passes
middle road (in politics)
road show or promotional tour (for a product etc)
network application
network link layer
a guide
routing protocol
twisting path
telecommunications network
see 車到山前必有路|车到山前必有路[chē dào shān qián bì yǒu lù]
Louis Vuitton (brand)
telephone line
shortcut
lit. the eyes watch six roads and the ears listen in all directions
road maintenance tax (China)
Ludwigshafen am Rhein, German city on the Rhine opposite Mannheim
backbone network
to bypass
sale
the ancient Silk Road
Martin Luther (1483-1546), key figure of the Protestant Reformation
lit. to drive a lightweight chariot on a familiar road (idiom)
Luzhu or Luchu township in Kaohsiung county 高雄縣|高雄县[gāo xióng xiàn], southwest Taiwan
midway
roadside stall
to have a pleasant journey (idiom)
important road
travel pass
to view as strangers
street lamp
Orchard Road, Singapore (shopping and tourist area)
railway line
the road back to where one came from
to travel on foot
(lit. and fig.) road
curb; roadside; wayside
network (computer, telecom)
Tagalog (language)
brigand
Luke