| 单词 | viaduct |
|---|---|
| 音标 | ['vaiədʌkt] |
| 解释 | n.高架桥 |
| 红宝书 | 【英】 n.高架桥(a long elevated roadway) 【记】 via(道路)+duct(引导 )→引导道路→高架桥; 【同】 参考：aqueduct(引水 渠) |
| 字源 | 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 ...." |
| 不择手段背单词 | 无 |
| 趣味全助记 | 【记】源自via 道路 + aqueduct 导水管道，象导水管道般架起来的道路 |
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