| 单词 | the bitumen |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe bitumen b. the bitumen: a tarred road; spec. the road from Darwin to Alice Springs. Australian colloquial. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > tarred macadamization1869 blacktop1917 hardtop1946 the bitumen1953 1953 S. J. Baker Austral. Speaks v. 137 One for the bitumen, a final round of drinks, i.e. ‘one for the road’. 1954 B. Miles Stars my Blanket xxv. 219 We had not seen another vehicle since we turned off the bitumen at Elliott. 1958 A. Toynbee East to West xiv. 44 ‘The bitumen’, running dead straight for hundreds of miles without a swerve, is an impressive symbol of the modern world. 1963 V. B. Cranley 27,000 Miles through Austral. ii. 19 The minute you left the ‘bitumen’, as tarred roads are called here, you were back in the bush. < as lemmas |
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