English Dictionary

Tobacco Road

固有名詞

俗語

A dirt road, created by the passage of thousands of tobacco casks being rolled, mainly by people or mules, from plantations to river steamboats or trucks.

日本語の意味

植園などから川の蒸気船やトラックへタバコを運ぶ際に、何千ものタバコ樽（あるいは樽）が人やラバによって転がされ、その跡としてできた埃だらけの土道。 / 転がされたタバコ樽によって刻まれた跡で形成された、タバコ農園から輸送手段へとタバコを運ぶために利用された土道。

The old Tobacco Road traced a deep, dusty groove through the fields where thousands of tobacco casks had been rolled down to the river.

かつて何千ものたばこ樽が転がされてできた古い土道は、畑の中に深い埃っぽい溝を描き、川へと続いていた。

意味（1）

A dirt road, created by the passage of thousands of tobacco casks being rolled, mainly by people or mules, from plantations to river steamboats or trucks.

意味（2）

A region of North Carolina historically associated with the production of tobacco.

意味（3）

(sports, slang) The four North Carolina schools in the Atlantic Coast Conference of the National Collegiate Athletic Association.

意味（4）

A fictional place in the rural American South inhabited by poor and uneducated people who live in dilapidated structures.

If you have traveled in the remote parts of the Deep South, I am sure you have seen the architecture of Tobacco Road - shacks built of whatever materials were available at the time, often by a series of owners. Maybe the roof is corrugated tin, but one wall is made from a billboard and the doorstep is a cinder block.