Railway
['reɪlweɪ] or ['relwe]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight.
朱厄尔錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on a bed or substructure.
(n.) The road, track, etc., with all the lands, buildings, rolling stock, franchises, etc., pertaining to them and constituting one property; as, a certain railroad has been put into the hands of a receiver.
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例句/造句/用法:
- The large and powerful engines on the Great Western Railway have, however, only two driving wheels, which are 8 feet in diameter. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- We drove slowly in this matting-covered tunnel and came out onto a bare cleared space where the railway station had been. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- To earn his bread he sought and found employment on a railway locomotive. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Magical and terrible things like the telegraph and the railway arrived. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In the Hetton Railway, which ran for a part of its distance through rough country, he used stationary engines wherever he could not secure grades that would make locomotives practicable. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Mr. Huskisson, one of the members of Parliament for Liverpool, and a warm friend and supporter of Stephenson and the railroad, had stepped from his coach, and was standing on the railway. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Mr. Edison himself supplies the following data: During the electric-railway experiments at Menlo Park, we had a short spur of track up one of the steep gullies. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- At the end of that time the sound of a carriage caught my ear, and I was met, as I advanced towards the second turning, by a fly from the railway. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Adverting to other advantages derived from railway locomotion, Mr. Stephenson noticed the comparative safety of that mode of travelling. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- The next afternoon, about twenty miles from Milton-Northern, they entered on the little branch railway that led to Heston. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- From the late summer of 1878 and to the fall of 1887 Edison was intensely busy on the electric light, electric railway, and other problems, and virtually gave no attention to the phonograph. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Ursula saw a man with a lantern come out of a farm by the railway, and cross to the dark farm-buildings. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- A railway here in Asia--in the dreamy realm of the Orient--in the fabled land of the Arabian Nights--is a strange thing to think of. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- We went up to the bank and finally we saw the railway bridge. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- Over one-half million miles of these railway tracks are on the earth's surface to-day! 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- In 1854 there were 111 millions of passengers conveyed on railways, each passenger travelling an average of 12 miles. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- The railways reduced this journey for any ordinary traveller to less than forty-eight hours. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Railways were growing at the rate of nearly one thousand miles annually. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Like considerations would apply to railways, antiseptic surgery, or friction matches. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- In a national and in a social point of view, also, railways have produced important improvements. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- The wear and tear of the railways was, at the same time, enormous. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- The Pacific Railway, the first of our half a dozen transcontinental railways, was completed in 1869. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- It is curious to note the many kinds of opposition these first railways encountered. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- By the middle of the century a network of railways had spread all over Europe. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I said we had eighty thousand convicts employed on the railways in America--all of them under sentence of death for murder in the first degree. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- No invention of the present century has produced so great a social change as Steam Locomotion on railways. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- Prominent among modern improvements in steam railways is the air brake. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The traffic returns for the week ending the 25th of September, 1858, amounted to £502,720; and the gross receipts of the railways in 1857 were £24,174,610. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- It deserves note that at Chicago regular railway tickets were issued to paying passengers, the first ever employed on American electric railways. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Instead of the diminished demand for horses which was apprehended when railways displaced stage coaches, public conveyances have increased a hundredfold. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
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