Turnpike

(noun.) an expressway on which tolls are collected.

(noun.) (from 16th to 19th centuries) gates set across a road to prevent passage until a toll had been paid.

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• Mr. Wopsle in a comprehensive black cloak, being descried entering at the turnpike, the gravedigger was admonished in a friendly way, Look out! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• He was likewise furnished with a felt hat well garnished with turnpike tickets; and a carter's whip. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• This was the speediest way to reinforce Warren who was confronting the enemy on both the Orange plank and turnpike roads. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• We agreed that he should bring a carriage to the old turnpike, and thence conduct me to his house. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• July 4, 1894, when ready for test, it was hauled into the country about three miles, behind a horse carriage, and started on a nearly level turnpike. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The turnpike lamp was a blur, quite out of the lamp's usual place apparently, and its rays looked solid substance on the fog. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• She seemed about to say more; but while she was speaking, we came within view of the turnpike, at the top of the Avenue Road. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Surely the straight, smooth, pure white turnpikes are jack-planed and sandpapered every day. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Two experts from Edinburgh declared that traveling on it was smoother and easier than any they had known over the best turnpikes of Mr. Macadam. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.

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