Sand Hill Road

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英文释义

专有名词
  1. An arterial road in western Silicon Valley, California, running through Palo Alto, Menlo Park, and Woodside, notable for its concentration of venture capital firms' offices.
    — Holonym: Silicon Valley
  2. A neighborhood of Palo Alto, California, named after the road.
    — Holonym: Silicon Valley
  3. The Californian venture capital industry, including its influence on Big Tech and biotech. metonymically
    — Near-synonym: Silicon Valley

词源

The road and its name existed in the 1920s and possibly before. The road was evidently named as a route toward a place called Sand Hill, but the Sand Hill in Oakley is not the referent, as it lies in a distant part of the Bay Area. The neighborhood sense and the venture-capital industry sense are by metonymy and are many decades newer.
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