a paved public road that only appears in a city or town, not in rural areas.

　　出现在城市或城镇(不在农村)的公共道路。

　　Usually there are shops/stores or houses along both sides of a street which facilitates public interaction.

　　通常有商店或房子沿着街道两旁，方便人们活动。

　　例：

　　It was 6pm and the streets were busy with people going home from work.

　　下午6点，街上挤满了下班回家的人。

　　After the guilty verdicy, there were riots on the streets.

　　宣判有罪后，街上发生了骚乱。

　　Road

　　=a route or way on land between two places that has been paved to allow travel by transport.

　　在两个地方之间铺设的一条道路，具备交通工具通行的条件。

　　According to the OECD, a road is a line of communication (travelled way) using a stabilized base other than rails or air strips open to public traffic, primarily for the use of road motor vehicles running on their own wheels

　　根据经济合作与发展组织的说法，road是一种使用基本陆地的公共交通线路，而不是铁道或空中，主要是供那些用轮子行驶的公路机动车辆使用。

　　Traditionally a road was a way to travel between two points, usually other towns or distant places. Over time, a road that once connected two towns or villages that were close to each other is still called a road even though now those two towns or villages became part of the same larger city. That is whyroads are normally long and important routes in a city.

　　传统上，road是联系两点之间的交通方式，通常是跟其他城镇或远距离的地方。随着时间的推移，曾经连接两个相邻的城镇或村庄的道路现在仍然被称为road，尽管现在这两个城镇或村庄已经成为同一个更大的城市的一部分。这就是为什么road通常是城市中又长又重要的路线。

　　例：

　　The farm is two miles south of the main road.

　　农场在主路以南两英里处。

　　Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

　　一片树林里分出两条路，而我——我选择了人迹更少的那条路，这使一切都不同了。

　　Nowadays you may hear people informally use the word road as a synonym ofstreet. This is fine and people will understand what you are talking about if you use either of the words.

　　现在你可能会听到人们非正式地用road作为street的同义词。这都是可以的，随便你用这两个词中的哪一个，人们都会明白你在说什么。

　　A street however normally has shopsstores or houses along both sides of it which facilitates public interaction. A road may also have buildings on either side though its main function is as a transportation route, a way of getting from one place to another, especially between towns. Outside of the city they are called roads.

　　street通常在两旁有商店或房子，方便人们活动。虽然road的主要功能是作为从一个地方到另一个地方的交通路线，特别是城镇之间，但有时候它的两边也可能有建筑物。城外的路叫“road”。

　　When a street (or road) is being repaired, it is called road works, not street works.

　　当道路被修复时，它被称为road works，而不是street works。

　　例：

　　Make sure you look both ways when you cross the street. (Here you could also use road instead of street)

　　过马路时一定要向两边看。(这里你也可以用road代替street)

　　I think I will be late to work because of all the road works on the way.

　　我想我上班要迟到了，因为路上有很多地方修路。