英语词汇“derailment”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	derailment
释义	derailment\|dɪˈreɪlmənt\| [ad. mod.F. déraillement (cited by Bescherelle 1845, from F. Tourneaux 1841), f. dérailler: see derail v. Introduced from French c 1850: at first chiefly used in U.S.] Said of a railway train, etc.: The fact of leaving or being thrown off the rails. 1850Lardner Railway Economy 326 In most cases of derailment, it is the engine which escapes from the rails. [Foot-note*, I have adopted this word from the French: it expresses an effect..for which we have not yet had any term in our railway nomenclature. By déraillement* is meant the escape of the wheels of the engine or carriage from the rails.]1864Webster, Derailment, the state of being off the rails of a railway, as a locomotive. Lardner.1880Times 20 Jan. (Swiss Railways), The number of accidents..was 177, of which 55 are classed as derailments, 55 as collisions.1880St. James's Gaz. 17 Aug. 12, I do not now refer to the influence of speed in producing a derailment.
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