| 释义 |
ˈstreamliner
[f. as prec. + -er1.]
a. A stream-lined train.
1938Times 14 Oct. 15/6 One of the latest streamliners to be put into operation is that of the Reading Line between New York and Philadelphia. 1946D. C. Peattie Road of Naturalist v. 55 To read the country while you run is possible even from a streamliner. 1958J. Kerouac On Road ix. 229 A hundred and ten miles an hour straight through, an arrow road, sleeping towns, no traffic, and the Union Pacific streamliner falling behind us in the moonlight. 1967O. Wynd Walk Softly v. 72 The Fuji is a great train, a streamliner, everything shiny and new. 1982Whitehouse & Allen E. Treacy—Railway Photographer 85 A streamliner takes the 5.25 to Euston past Wavertree.
b. One who streamlines.
1943F. L. Wright Autobiogr. iv. 321 Invention..looking for salvation to the engineer, the streamliner, and the elevator, has been trying to..hold the profits of superconcentration.
c. gen. Something streamlined.
1968Church Times 13 Sept. 18/3, I hear you have sold your old house and are looking for a streamliner. |