When they came to the fork of the road, his horse turned left into a bypath as if it were possessed with a demon and began to run headlong down the hill. 当他们来到叉路口时,他的马就好像被鬼缠住似的,转向左边的小路而急速地冲下山坡去。
bypath
[ noun ] a side road little traveled (as in the countryside) <noun.artifact>
Bypath \By"path`\, n.; pl. {Bypaths}. A private path; an obscure way; indirect means.
God known, my son, By what bypaths, and indirect crooked ways, I met this crown. --Shak.