Town planners duly carved out motorways and roundabouts to entice them.

因为城市规划者不失时宜地开发了很多高速公路和环状交叉路口诱惑他们。

They had almost reached the motorway when Ginny shrieked that she'd left her diary.

快上高速公路时，金妮又尖叫起来，说她忘带日记本了。

Drivers on their way to the Polish capital of Warsaw on Wednesday morning found the road blocked by an unusual obstacle — tons of liquid chocolate that spilled onto the motorway.

周三上午，司机们在前往波兰首华沙的路上，发现道路被一个不寻常的障碍物堵住了——数吨液体巧克力洒在高速公路上。

Service stations came with the motorway and the legend of the transport cafe was born.

服务站随之而来，货运餐馆的传奇就这样诞生了。

I think it took around 3 or 4 days to recover, even after the floods had receded, they needed to remove lots of the debris from especially the motorways, there were many rocks strewn all over the place.

我记得大概三到四天之后情况才有所好转，但水已经消退了，他们还需要清除很多墟和残骸，尤其是公路上的，那里到处着很多石头。

On motorways you can, at least, travel fairly safely at high speeds, but more often than not, the greater part of the journey is spend on roads with few service stations and too much traffic.

在公路上还好，至少速度快，比较安全。但旅途的大半花在了路上，而且服务设施少，交通拥挤。

Mermaid water sounds delightful, is it close to the motorway?

美人鱼水听起来很好听，它靠近高速公路吗？

He walked around the London orbital motorway called the M25, to prove his hunch that you don't need to go far to find adventure.

他沿着伦敦名叫M25的的环行高速走了一圈，以此证明他你不需要走得很远去寻找冒险的直觉。

" I don’t enjoy overtaking big lorries on the motorway."

我不喜欢在高速公路上超车大型货车。

Oh I see. Well it was like that, we were not moving at all on one stretch of the motorway. A 90-minute journey in the end took us 5 hours.

哦，我明白了。对，当时情况就是那样，我们在高速公路上堵死，动不动。这段本来只要90分钟的行程最后用了五个小时。

He looked so dangerous with half his mustache missing that no one dared argue. Ten minutes later they had wrenched their way through the boarded-up doors and were in the car, speeding toward the motorway.

他揪掉了一半胡子，看起来很可怕，谁也不敢顶撞他了。十分钟后，他们奋力拆开用木条钉死的大门，冲出门去，坐上汽车朝公路疾驰雨去。

Personally, I prefer taking a train to driving on the motorway.

就我个人而言，我更喜欢坐火车而不是在高速公路上开车。

This is one of longest motorways in Canada.

这是加拿大最长的高速公路。

On motorways you can, at least, travel fairly safely at high speeds, but more often than not, the greater part of the journey is spent on roads with few service stations and too much traffic.

在公路上还好，你至少能以相当快的速度安全地向前行。但旅行的大部分时间花在路上，而且只有很少的服务设施，交通也很拥挤。

A dark blue Mercedes van hurtles down the motorway toward the white cliffs of Dover.

一辆深蓝色的梅赛德斯货车沿着高速公路驶向多佛的白色悬崖。

" The car accident caused a big problem on the motorway." 'An incident' is much more general - we can use it to talk about almost anything that happens, any single event.

汽车事故给机动车道造成了很大的麻烦。而incident（事件）是较笼统的一个单词，我们几乎可以用它来指代所有事情。

Such systems are sometimes used to set motorway tolls (which rise and fall with demand in an effort to keep traffic flowing), or to adjust the price of energy in electricity markets.

这一机制有时会被用于设置高速公路通行费（为保证交通顺畅，通行费因需求而上涨、下调），或者用于调整电力市场上能源价格。

The investigation into the cause of the train crash in the US state of Washington is focusing on the speed of the train before it plunged off a bridge onto a motorway below.

美国华盛顿发生一起火车事故，事故原因正在调查之中，目前调查重点放在了车速上，这辆火车冲下了大桥到了下面的高速路上。

This serenely smiling sculpture is not the creation of an individual artist, but the achievement of a whole society-the result of a huge, complex process of engineering and logistics-in many ways much closer to building a motorway than making a work of art.

这座带着庄严笑容的雕像并非某一位艺术家的作品, 而是整个社会的劳动成果，需要繁复庞杂的工程规划与后勤保障。它在许多方面更接近于修建高速公路，而非创作艺术。

The farmers have been causing major disruption across the country with the setting up of roadblocks on key motorways, the setting alight of tires and waste, and the dumping of manure outside local stores.

农民们在全国上下造成了严重的干扰，在关键的高速公路路段设置了路障，点燃了轮胎和垃圾，并在当地商店门外倾倒粪肥。