English Dictionary

desire line

IPA（発音記号）

/dɪˈzaɪə laɪn/

名詞

A path that pedestrians or vehicles take informally rather than taking a sidewalk or set route, for example, a well-worn ribbon of dirt cutting across a patch of grass, or a path in the snow.

日本語の意味

歩道や舗装された道路を避け、歩行者や車両が自然に選んだ、意図されていない通行路。 / 人々が頻繁に通ることで踏みならされ、自然に形成された小道。

Commuters cut a desire line through the park every winter, trampling a clear path through the snow to reach the bus stop faster.

通勤者たちは毎冬、公園を横切る踏み分け道を作り、バス停に早く着くために雪の中に一筋の道を踏み固めた。

意味（1）

A path that pedestrians or vehicles take informally rather than taking a sidewalk or set route, for example, a well-worn ribbon of dirt cutting across a patch of grass, or a path in the snow.

The grouping of like trips for all passenger cars, taxi-cabs and trucks resulted in 3580 desire lines, varying in volume from one trip to 5200 trips. It is obvious that if all the desire lines were illustrated graphically on one chart the result would be a maze of lines that would be confusing.

desire lines （ plural ）