核心问题
...She would leave the market for the streets of the town to spend another hour ____ she liked best: looking in furniture-shop windows.
A. in a way B. by the way C. in the way D. on the way(全国研考)
标准答案为 C(in the way)。我则认为应当选 D(on the way)，因为 in the way 是指“妨碍”“挡路”的意思。
词典解答
看来,你只知道 in the way 的一个含义:“妨碍”“挡路”,而不知道它还有另一个含义:以……方式(在这种用法下介词 in 常常省略)。读了下面的例句,你就会恍然大悟:
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Am I in the way? 我碍事吗？（我挡路吗？）
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She cooks chicken in the way I like. 她以我喜欢的方法烹调鸡肉。
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They didn't do it in the way (that) we do now. (Hill) 他们没有用我们现在用的方法做那件事。
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He doesn't speak the way I do. (LDCE) 他说话的方式跟我不同。
(参见 the way/in the way, in the way/in one's way)