| 单词 | traffic island |
| 释义 | > as lemmastraffic island traffic island n. †(a) an area where there is relatively little rail traffic (obsolete rare); (b) a raised or marked area in a road to provide a safe stopping point for crossing pedestrians and to direct the flow of traffic (cf. safety island n. at safety n. Compounds 3, refuge n. 4c).With sense (a), cf. main sense 8a.Sense (b) is uncommon in North America, where safety island is the more usual term. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > parts of road > [noun] > portion for safety of pedestrians street island1853 island1869 refuge1869 street refuge1879 traffic island1887 safety island1893 safety isle1902 safety zone1915 1887 Economist 29 Oct. 1370/1 In the United States, outside of the kind of ‘traffic islands’ formed by the older-settled New England States, the proportion of local to ‘through’ traffic is extremely small. 1911 Manitoba Free Press 25 Nov. (Real Estate section) 13/5 (headline) Traffic islands in city's streets. 1982 ‘C. Aird’ Last Respects x. 101 The driver negotiated the traffic islands with impatience. 2019 Northern Echo (Nexis) 22 Oct. Durham County Council added a new traffic island and dropped kerbs..to help pedestrians cross the road. < as lemmas |
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