1. 道路;路线;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线
    e.g. All escape routes were blocked by armed police...
           所有逃跑的路都被武警封锁了。

2. 行车路线;航线
    A bus, air, or shipping route is the way between two places along which buses, planes, or ships travel regularly.

route的翻译

    e.g. ...the main shipping routes to Japan.
           去往日本的主要航运线路

3. (用于美国干线公路号码前)
    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号公路的百老汇－韦伯斯特出口

4. (作为工作的)走访，拜访
    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...
           他打开装黄油饼干的蓝色大罐子，开始沿路给狗喂食。
    e.g. They would go out on his route and check him.
           他们会到他那里走访一下，看看他的情况。

5. 途径;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...
           研究人员正试图通过间接的途径获得相同的信息。
    e.g. Buying the best is as sure a route to success in investment as in any other field.
           和其他领域一样，投资领域获得成功的途径也是买进最佳商品。

6. 按特定路线发送(车辆、货物或乘客)
    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...
           以往由卡车运送的很多货物现在都改用双层列车运送了。
    e.g. Approaching cars will be routed into two lanes.
           驶来的车辆会分流到两条车道。

7. 以…线路发送(电话或其他电子信号)
    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.
           只通过3次电话转接来传送英国境内所有紧急呼叫的计划

8. 在途中，沿途(在不规范英语中有时拼作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...
           他们已经到达伦敦，正在前往美国的途中。
    e.g. One of the bags was lost en route.
           其中一个包在途中丢失了。

9. （新闻用语）作为（较长进程）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.
             那个德国人在获得高尔夫球赛最高奖金的同时刷新了3项锦标赛纪录，平了其他两项纪录。

10. 把事情进行到底;贯彻始终
      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.
             在很多情况下，他们从头到尾都只做大的东西——大碗，大雕像，大面具，所有东西都是大的。