cor·ri·dor

corridor [Language: French; Origin: Old Italian corridore, from correre 'to run']

n.
1. A narrow hallway, passageway, or gallery [走廊; 柱廊], often with rooms or apartments opening onto it.
2.
a. A tract of land designated or used for a specific purpose, as for railroad lines, highways, or pipelines.
b. A route designated for a specific purpose: a hazardous material corridor; a sea corridor for shipping; a flight corridor.
c. A route or tract of land used by migrating animals.
3. A thickly populated strip of land connecting two or more urban areas: people who live in the Boston-Washington corridor.

Idiom:

• corridors of power: the places or positions from which people in authority wield power.

Corridor or The Corridor may refer to:

• A narrow hall, or corridor, a passageway to provide access between rooms inside a building
• A passageway along a corridor coach
• Wildlife corridor
• Air corridor, a designated travel path for aircraft
• Transport corridor, a (generally linear) tract of land in which at least one main line for some mode of transport has been built

Safety corridors are stretches of state highways where fatal and serious injury traffic crash rates are higher than the statewide average for similar types of roadways. To reduce the number of these incidents, the stretch of the road is designated as a "safety corridor" and becomes subject to heightened enforcement and double fines for traffic infractions, if signed. Drivers may also be asked to turn on headlights during the day, reduce speed and refrain from passing. The goal of the Safety Corridor Program is to identify corridors with high rates of serious and fatal injury crashes and reduce these crashes in the short-term through the use of partnerships with engineering, enforcement, education and emergency service. Each component contributes to the mutual goal of reducing serious injury crashes by encouraging drivers to change poor behaviors within safety corridors and drive safely.

六级/考研单词: gallery, seldom, tract, designate, railroad, hazard, migrate, idiom, wield, fatal, injure, crash, enforce, refrain, educate, component, mutual