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Tipi di strada

Types of road

Il tuo punteggio	Vocabolario	Traduzione	Frase esempio / note
0/0	a minor road	una strada secondaria	‘Our sat nav took us on a number of minor roads to get here, so it took us longer than expected.’
0/0	a main road	una strada principale	‘Our offices are located close to the main road between Brighton and Gatwick.’
0/0	a dual carriageway	una superstrada	‘It’s quicker to take the dual carriageway to the port.’ American English = ‘a divided highway’
0/0	a motorway	un'autostrada	‘There are long delays on the motorway, so I suggest you take an alternative route.’ American English = ‘a freeway’

Il tuo punteggio

Vocabolario, Audio, Traduzione, Frase esempio / note

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a minor road

una strada secondaria

‘Our sat nav took us on a number of minor roads to get here, so it took us longer than expected.’

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a main road

una strada principale

‘Our offices are located close to the main road between Brighton and Gatwick.’

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a dual carriageway

una superstrada

‘It’s quicker to take the dual carriageway to the port.’

American English = ‘a divided highway’

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a motorway

un'autostrada

‘There are long delays on the motorway, so I suggest you take an alternative route.’

American English = ‘a freeway’

In autostrada

On the motorway

Il tuo punteggio	Vocabolario	Traduzione	Frase esempio / note
0/0	a central reservation	uno spartitraffico	‘There’s a lot of litter in the central reservation.’
0/0	a hard shoulder	un'intersezione	‘I think the car has a flat tyre. I’ll pull onto the hard shoulder.’
0/0	a lane	una corsia	‘Stay in the left lane at the junction to turn left onto Station Road.’ This is in the sense of a lane on a motorway or dual carriageway. ‘A lane’ is also used for a small road typically in the countryside.
0/0	a motorway service station	una stazione di servizio dell'autostrada	‘This is the last motorway service station for thirty miles.’

Il tuo punteggio

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a central reservation

uno spartitraffico

‘There’s a lot of litter in the central reservation.’

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a hard shoulder

un'intersezione

‘I think the car has a flat tyre. I’ll pull onto the hard shoulder.’

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a lane

una corsia

‘Stay in the left lane at the junction to turn left onto Station Road.’

This is in the sense of a lane on a motorway or dual carriageway. ‘A lane’ is also used for a small road typically in the countryside.

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a motorway service station

una stazione di servizio dell'autostrada

‘This is the last motorway service station for thirty miles.’

Strade

Roads

Il tuo punteggio	Vocabolario	Traduzione	Frase esempio / note
0/0	a cat's eye	un occhio di gatto	‘The fog was pretty bad, but the cat's eyes made it easier to see where the road was.’
0/0	a junction	un incrocio	‘Go straight over the junction then turn right at the petrol station.’
0/0	a one-way street	una strada a senso unico	‘You can’t turn left here - it’s a one-way street.’
0/0	a pedestrian crossing	un passaggio pedonale	‘It’s safer to use the pedestrian crossing further down the road.’ This is also known as a ‘pelican crossing’.
0/0	a petrol station	una stazione di servizio	‘Are there any petrol stations near here? I’m running low on petrol.’ American English = ‘a gas station’
0/0	a pothole	una buca	‘We hit a pothole on the way here. I think the wheel is damaged.’
0/0	a road sign	un segnale stradale	‘There are a lot of road signs at the junction, it’s quite confusing.’
0/0	a roundabout	una rotatoria	‘Our head office is located just off the roundabout at the end of the dual carriageway.’ American English = ‘a traffic circle’
0/0	a slip road	una rampa	‘Take the slip road onto the motorway.’
0/0	a speed camera	un autovelox	‘There are a number of speed cameras on the dual carriageway.’
0/0	a street light	una luce stradale	‘There are no street lights along this stretch of road.’
0/0	traffic lights	semafori	‘The traffic lights have stopped working so there are long delays.’
0/0	a zebra crossing	un attraversamento pedonale	‘The new zebra crossing has made it safer to cross the road.’ American English = ‘a cross walk’