1. 道路;路線;路途
    A route is a way from one place to another.

    e.g. ...the most direct route to the town centre...
           到市中心最直接的路線
    e.g. All escape routes were blocked by armed police...
           所有逃跑的路都被武警封鎖了。

2. 行車路線;航線
    A bus, air, or shipping route is the way between two places along which buses, planes, or ships travel regularly.

route的翻譯

    e.g. ...the main shipping routes to Japan.
           去往日本的主要航運線路

3. (用于美國干線公路號碼前)
    In the United States, Route is used in front of a number in the names of main roads between major cities.

    e.g. ...the Broadway-Webster exit on Route 580.
           580號公路的百老匯－韋伯斯特出口

4. (作為工作的)走訪，拜訪
    Your route is the series of visits you make to different people or places, as part of your job.

    e.g. He began cracking open big blue tins of butter cookies and feeding the dogs on his route...
           他打開裝黃油餅干的藍色大罐子，開始沿路給狗喂食。
    e.g. They would go out on his route and check him.
           他們會到他那里走訪一下，看看他的情況。

5. 途徑;方法
    You can refer to a way of achieving something as a route .

    e.g. Researchers are trying to get at the same information through an indirect route...
           研究人員正試圖通過間接的途徑獲得相同的信息。
    e.g. Buying the best is as sure a route to success in investment as in any other field.
           和其他領(lǐng)域一樣，投資領(lǐng)域獲得成功的途徑也是買進最佳商品。

6. 按特定路線發(fā)送(車輛、貨物或乘客)
    If vehicles, goods, or passengers are routed in a particular direction, they are made to travel in that direction.

    e.g. Double-stack trains are taking a lot of freight that used to be routed via trucks...
           以往由卡車運送的很多貨物現(xiàn)在都改用雙層列車運送了。
    e.g. Approaching cars will be routed into two lanes.
           駛來的車輛會分流到兩條車道。

7. 以…線路發(fā)送(電話或其他電子信號)
    If telephone calls or other electronic signals are routed in a particular way, the signals are sent through a particular series of connections.

    e.g. ...plans to route every emergency call in Britain through just three telephone exchanges.
           只通過3次電話轉(zhuǎn)接來傳送英國境內(nèi)所有緊急呼叫的計劃

8. 在途中，沿途(在不規(guī)范英語中有時拼作on route)
    En route to a place means on the way to that place. En route is sometimes spelled on toute in non-standard English.

    e.g. They have arrived in London en route to the United States...
           他們已經(jīng)到達倫敦，正在前往美國的途中。
    e.g. One of the bags was lost en route.
           其中一個包在途中丟失了。

9. （新聞用語）作為（較長進程）的一部分，在…之前
      Journalists sometimes use en route when they are mentioning an event that happened as part of a longer process or before another event.

      e.g. The German set three tournament records and equalled two others en route to grabbing golf's richest prize.
             那個德國人在獲得高爾夫球賽最高獎金的同時刷新了3項錦標賽紀錄，平了其他兩項紀錄。

10. 把事情進行到底;貫徹始終
      If you go the route, you do something fully or continue with a task until you have completely finished.

      e.g. They have gone the route, in many cases, of just big — big bowls, big statues, big masks, big everything.
             在很多情況下，他們從頭到尾都只做大的東西——大碗，大雕像，大面具，所有東西都是大的。