viaduct

• n. 高架橋；高架鐵路

via,路，duct,管道。引申詞義高架橋。

viaduct (n.)

1816, from Latin via "road" (see via) + -duct as in aqueduct. French viaduc is a 19c. English loan-word.

An extensive bridge consisting, strictly of a series of arches of masonry, erected for the purpose of conducting a road or a railway a valley or a district of low level, or over existing channels of communication, where an embankment would be impracticable or inexpedient; more widely, any elevated roadway which artificial constructions of timber, iron, bricks, or stonework are established. [Century Dictionary]

But the word apparently was coined by English landscape gardener Humphry Repton (1752-1818) for an architectural feature, "a form of bridge adapted to the purposes of passing over, which may unite strength with grace, or use with beauty ...."

1. With their aid a vital viaduct on the main Athens railway line was destroyed.

在他們的幫助下,破壞了雅典鐵路幹線上的一座主要高架橋梁.

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2. Viaduct accounts for 86 percent of the Pearl Line.

摘要明珠線全長86%是高架橋.

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3. They were a helicopter to film the train going Viaduct.

他們用直升飛機拍攝列車通過橋的場景.

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4. An overhead road for cars or trains is called a viaduct.

在公路上有高架橋供火車和汽車通過.

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5. Across the high viaduct rumbles a late train.

一趟晚班列車隆隆駛過高架鐵路.

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