| 单词 | soft shoulder |
| 释义 | > as lemmassoft shoulder soft shoulder n. [ < soft adj. + shoulder n. (compare shoulder n. 6j)] North American an unmetalled strip of land at the side of a road, on which vehicles may stop in an emergency; cf. hard shoulder n. at hard adj. and n. Compounds 4. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > parts of road > [noun] > shoulder soft shoulder1917 shoulder1933 hard shoulder1952 1917 N.Y. Times 14 Jan. 4/2 It is necessary, in order to avoid a collision on a sixteen-foot roadway, to turn out on soft shoulders. 1978 J. Irving World according to Garp xii. 231 I run in the stuff of the soft shoulder, in the hot sand and gravel. 2012 Kamloops (Brit. Columbia) Daily News (Nexis) 25 Oct. 4 The truck's right-side wheels caught the highway's soft shoulder and the vehicle rolled into the eastbound ditch. < as lemmas |
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