causeway: [15] Etymologically, a causeway is a road paved with limestone. In late Middle English, the word was causey way, causey coming via Anglo-Norman *cauce from Vulgar Latin *calciāta, an adjective derived from Latin calx ‘limestone’ (source also of English chalk, calcium, and calculate). The simple form causey ‘causeway, path’ survived dialectally well into the 20th century, and its French relative chausée, ‘road’ is still very much alive. => calcium, calculate, chalk
causeway (n.)
1570s, from Middle English cauceweye "raised road" (mid-15c.), first element from Anglo-French cauce, Old North French cauciee (12c., Modern French chaussée), from Vulgar Latin *via calciata "paved way," from Latin calcis, genitive of calx (2) "limestone," or Late Latin calciare "to stamp with the heels, tread" (on notion of a road or mound across marshy ground made firm by treading down), from Latin calx (1) "heel." For second element, see way (n.).
雙語例句
1. The causeway to the island is only accessible at low tide.
通往該島的堤道隻有在枯潮時才能通行。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Bombay is linked to the mainland by a causeway.
孟買和本土間有一條堤道相連.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
3. " They shot Sonny on the causeway, " Hagen said. " He's dead. "
“ 人家在堤道上向桑兒開槍, ” 黑根說, “ 他給打死了.
來自教父部分
4. The causeway was badly lit, there was not a single car.
堤道上的燈光照明很糟糕, 連一輛汽車也沒有.
來自教父部分
5. They went forward as briskly as they could on the uneven causeway.