"long-tailed crested desert cuckoo," 1847, American English, from road (n.) + runner. Earliest references give the Mexican Spanish name for it as correcamino and the English name might be a translation of that. The Warner Bros. cartoon character dates to 1948.
雙語(yǔ)例句
1. The road to peace will be long and drawn-out.
通往和平的道路將很漫長(zhǎng)。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
2. French soldiers squared off with a gunman at a road checkpoint.