| 词汇 | road |
| 词源 | road. Road, for “a rather narrow street or passage,” came into English rather late, being first recorded in Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part I (1596). It may derive from the Old English word rode, for “a journey on horseback,” but its origin is obscure. |
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