马路
馬路Meanings
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- 1.street
- 2.road
- 3.CL:条[tiáo]
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Wiktionary
- 1.wide road used for horses and horse-drawn carriages
- 2.wide and flat road for the passage of vehicles; paved road; (by extension) road; street (Classifier: 條／条 m)
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Etymology
First attested in the 4th century BC in Zuo Zhuan, meaning “wide road used for horses”. How this came to be used as a general term for “paved road; street” is debated. Common theories include: * A natural semantic evolution (± modern repurposing) of the literary Chinese term. * A phono-semantic matching of English macadam (the modern method of road construction) + 路 (“road”), originally used in Shanghainese.
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Example sentences
过马路时请小心。
Please be careful when crossing the street.
我看见他穿过了马路。
I saw him cross the street.
我看见他穿过了马路。
I saw him crossing the road.
我看见他穿过了马路。
I saw him crossing the street.
我看见他穿过了马路。
I saw him cross the road.
老人小心翼翼地过了马路。
The old man walked across the road carefully.
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