beltway

🇺🇸 /ˈbeltweɪ/ 🇬🇧 /ˈbeltweɪ/
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A highway that encircles a city or town, often used as a metaphor for the political insiders of a country's capital.

The term 'beltway' is often used to describe the traffic congestion around a major city, like when someone says, 'I spent hours stuck in beltway traffic.'

「beltway」一詞通常用來描述大都市周圍的交通擁擠,例如有人說:「我在環城公路上堵了好幾個小時。」

translation

n. 環狀道路

詞形變化

Plural beltways