| 释义 |
skyway Chiefly U.S.|ˈskaɪweɪ|
[sky n.1]
1. The sky as a medium of transport or a route used by aircraft; = airway 2.
1919Pearson's Mag. Dec. 547/1 The letters will tell..the nationality of the ship passing along the world's skyways. 1928L. Thomas (title) European skyways. The story of a tour of Europe by aeroplane. 1934Sun (Baltimore) 15 May 1/3 Theirs is the great-circle route over the North Atlantic—the skyway emblazoned by Byrd, Acosta, [etc.]. 1952N.Y. Times 7 Aug. 39/8 The team of precision flyers will fly the skyway route on the way to their home base at Corpus Christi, Tex. 1967M. Craven I heard Owl call my Name xi. 68 High in the skyways wild geese called exultantly on their first early passages back from the south.
2. An overhead motorway. Also transf. (see quot. 1960).
1940Sun (Baltimore) 6 Sept. 13/4 It has been suggested that a skyway be built along Pratt street from Monroe to the Fallsway, the western end to connect with the route to Washington. 1958Wall St. Jrnl. 10 Nov. 18/3 A reduction in toll rates charged on the Sunshine Skyway..is expected to be approved by the State Road Department Board. 1960Daily Tel. 10 Feb. 20/6 The system, known as Skyway, runs on a concrete way 15 ft above ground. It has a speed of 50 m.p.h. and it is estimated operates for as little as a penny a mile. 1972J. Gores Dead Skip (1973) i. 7 Heslip unlocked the chain-link storage lot under the concrete abutments of the skyway adjacent to the DICA office.
3. Chiefly in Minneapolis: (see quot. 19751; an aerial walkway between buildings. U.S.
[1968Archit. Forum Jan.–Feb. 83/2 The first pedestrian bridge of an elaborate second-story network has been completed in downtown St. Paul. Part of the 12-block urban renewal project, the ‘Skyway’ will eventually comprise an elevated system of bridges and concourses.] 1969Ibid. Jan.– Feb. 75/3 The overpass idea, now called a ‘Skyway’, is being carried out several blocks to the east. 1970Business Week 26 Dec. 48/2 Shelter from summer heat and winter weather is one advantage of skyways—especially in Minneapolis, where it is below or near freezing for five months of the year. 1975Country Life 2 Jan. 36/3 There has been a great incentive to construct the Skyway system... Skyways are broad, carpeted, heated, air-conditioned, glass-covered corridors, linking the main city buildings at first-floor level. 1975New Yorker 24 Mar. 106/2 Walking there is a pleasure—down the carless mall, or through a glazed ‘skyway’ system if snow starts to fall. 1979United States 1980/81 (Penguin Travel Guides) 266 The most extraordinary feature of downtown Minneapolis is its internal skyway, an inter⁓connected belt of pedestrian malls and escalators. |