中文词源
subway 地铁
sub-,在下，way,道路。引申词义地铁。
英语词源
- subway (n.)
- 1825, "underground passage" (for water pipes or pedestrians, later for electrical wires), from sub- + way (n.). The sense of "underground railway in a city" is first recorded 1892, in reference to London.
权威例句
- 1. The majority of us feel worried if we walk through a subway.
- 大多数人在走地下通道时都感到害怕。
- 2. A 15-year-old girl was attacked at knifepoint in a subway.
- 一名15岁的女孩在地铁里遭持刀袭击。
- 3. Steps lead down to the subway from the upstream side.
- 上游那边有台阶通向地铁。
- 4. The subway was covered in graffiti.
- 过街地道里涂满了乱七八糟的图画和文字。
- 5. the New York subway
- 纽约地铁