- (especially British English) (North American English usually intersection)
the place where two or more roads or railway lines meet （公路或铁路的）交叉路口，汇合处，枢纽站 It was near the junction of City Road and Old Street. 那是在城市路与老街的交叉路口附近。 Come off the motorway at junction 6. 在 6 号交叉路口驶离高速公路。 The most complicated motorway interchange in Britain is known as Spaghetti Junction. 英国最复杂的高速公路交汇处被称为意大利面条路口。 In the 19th century the town became an important railway junction. 19世纪，该镇成为一个重要的铁路枢纽。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- busy
- dangerous
- motorway
- …
- at a/the junction
- junction with
a place where two or more cables, rivers or other things meet or are joined （电缆的）主接点；（河流的）汇合处；接合点 a telephone junction box 电话分线盒 the junction between nerves and muscles 神经和肌肉的连接处
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- busy
- dangerous
- motorway
- …
- at a/the junction
- junction with
Word Originearly 18th cent. (originally meaning the action or fact of being joined): from Latin junctio(n-), from jungere ‘to join’.