macadamize

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To cover (a road) with macadam (small, broken stones) so as to form a smooth, hard, convex surface.
    — Lo there what mix’d conditions run! The orphan lad; the widow’s son; And Fortune’s favour’d care— The wealthy born, for whom she hath Mac-Adamized the future path— The Nabob’s pamper’d heir!

词形变化

macadamizes present,singular,third-person macadamizing participle,present macadamized participle,past macadamized past macadamise alternative McAdamise alternative McAdamize alternative

词源

From macadam + -ize, after Scottish engineer John Loudon McAdam who pioneered this method of road construction around 1820.
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