route /ruːt/ CET4 TEM4 ( routing, routed, routes )

• 1. 

  N-COUNT A route is a way from one place to another. 路线

  例：

  ...the most direct route to the centre of town.

  …去镇中心最直接的路线。

• 2. 

  N-COUNT A bus, air, or shipping route is the way between two places along which buses, planes, or ships travel regularly. (公共汽车的) 行车路线; (飞机、轮船的) 航线

  例：

  ...the main shipping routes to Japan.

  …去往日本的主要轮船航线。

• 3. 

  N-IN-NAMES In the United States, Route is used in front of a number in the names of main roads between major cities. (…号) 公路

  例：

  From San Francisco take the motorway to the Broadway-Webster exit on Route 580.

  从旧金山走高速公路到580号公路百老汇—韦伯斯特出口。

• 4. 

  N-COUNT Your route is the series of visits you make to different people or places, as part of your job. 巡访 [美国英语]

  例：

  He began cracking open big blue tins of butter cookies and feeding the dogs on his route.

  他开始打开装着奶油曲奇的蓝色大罐子，巡访途中喂起那些狗来。

• 5. 

  N-COUNT You can refer to a way of achieving something as a route. 途径

  例：

  Researchers are trying to get at the same information through an indirect route.

  研究者们正试图通过一条间接途径获取同样的信息。

• 6. 

  V-T If vehicles, goods, or passengers are routed in a particular direction, they are made to travel in that direction. 为…规定路线 [usu passive]

  例：

  Trains are taking a lot of freight that used to be routed via trucks.

  火车正在运送过去由卡车运送的大批货物。

• 7. 

  PHRASE En route to a place means on the way to that place. En route is sometimes spelled on route in nonstandard English. 在途中

  例：

  They have arrived in London en route to the United States.

  他们在前往美国的途中已中途到达伦敦。

• 8. 

  PHRASE Journalists sometimes use en route when they are mentioning an event that happened as part of a longer process or before another event. 在…的过程中; 在…之前

  例：

  The German set three tournament records and equalled two others en route to grabbing golf's richest prize.

  这个德国人在赢取高尔夫球赛最高奖的过程中刷新了3项、平了2项锦标赛记录。