Instead, I saw that they had discovered a new route.
结果却发现它们又找到一条新的路径。
新概念英语第三册 Lesson 54 Instinct or cleverness

📚 句中词汇解析

从本句中提取的重要词汇

route [rut] 词频1
n. 路;（公共汽车和列车等的）常规路线;航线;渠道，途径; vt. 按某路线发送;给…规定路线[次序，程序];
💡 rount(break)+e(名词后缀)→道路；路线
"The plane did not fly the usual commercial route."
飞机没有沿通常的商业航线飞.
近义：lead, orientate, walk, guide, heading, lane
instead [ɪn'stɛd] 词频1 词根: 站立
adv. 代替，顶替;反而;反倒;
💡 在(in)三杯(s)茶(tea)里用靴子(b) 代替杯子
"Lee was ill so I went instead."
李病了，所以我去了。
近义：however, rather
discovered
v. 发现, 找到（discover的过去形式）
近义：found

📚 更多「新概念英语第三册」例句

As there are so many people about, the dogs have to be kept in a special enclosure.
由于来人太多，狗被关在专门的围栏里。
Life there is simple and good.
在那里，生活简单又美好。
It was simply a blank sheet of paper.
而是一张白纸。
He was still mumbling something about hospitals at the end of the party when he slipped on a piece of ice and broke his left leg.
晚会结束时，他嘴里还在嘟哝着医院的事，突然踩到一块冰上滑倒了，摔断了左腿。
Historians have long been puzzled by dots, lines and symbols which have been engraved on walls, bones, and the ivory tusks of mammoths.
长期以来，历史学家一直对雕刻在墙壁上、骨头上、古代长毛象的象牙上的点、线和形形色色的符号感到困惑不解。
The worst thing about the do-it-yourself game is that sometimes even men live under the delusion that they can do anything, even when they have repeatedly been proved wrong.
自己动手的例子中最糟糕的是，有时甚至是男人尽管接连失败却还误以为自己什么都行，