单词beltway
n.: （尤指环绕华盛顿特区的）环行路
网络: 环形公路；环路；环城公路
（尤指环绕华盛顿特区的）环行路，环路:
a ring road , especially the one around Washington DC
皮带运输机道
环行路
环状公路
复数：beltways
It took me a while, but I finally figured it out: There is an America beyond the Beltway.
我花了一会儿时间，不过我最后想通了：有一个超出环城路的美国。
Gates doesn"t travel much on the Beltway"s social circuit, instead spending off-hours with his wife and a small cadre of aides.
盖茨与华盛顿周围的社交圈子并没有太多的来往，业余时间倒是与妻子和一些骨干小助手呆在一起。
But even those of us long calloused by life within the Beltway ought to be able to see that we"ve got a problem.
即便如我们这些常年生活在环路里的人，也应当有能力看到这些问题。
The Grammy was another reminder that at least beyond the Washington Beltway, a lot of Americans were interested in the same things we were.
格莱美奖给我们的另一个提醒是，至少在华盛顿环城公路之外，有很多美国人和我们有着相同的兴趣。
And given the realities of how policy is actually made inside the Beltway, things are more likely to go wrong than right.
考虑到这样的事实，政策实际上是由政治权贵们一手包办的，那就可能错得更离谱了。
This week, when the National Governors Association gathered inside the beltway for its winter meeting, innovation was the theme.
这个星期全美州长协会为冬季例会而在国会环路内聚集一堂，改革是本次季会的主题。
But there"s a bigger reason that Bush nostalgia is about to become a very real phenomenon inside and outside the Beltway: the Tea Party.
但是有个更大的原因就是小布什之情将会变成一种真实的奇迹出现在环城公路内外：茶党。
It"s a good time, then, to take an assessment of where things stand in the Beltway heading into the final months of the year.
不过，在这一年还剩下几个月的时刻，正是对政府做出一番评估的好时机。
The President will find his Asian hosts a lot more receptive to his yes-we-cans than the beltway voters back home.
奥巴马将会发现，与本国的选民相比，他的亚洲东道主们对他的“口头行动”显然更能接受。
Beltway bureaucrats spend many billions of dollars on top-down, highly fragmented federal economic development programs.
华盛顿的官僚花费几十亿美元的自上而下，高度分散的联邦经济发展计划。