| 释义 |
north-bound, a.
Also northbound.
[north adv.]
Bound for the north; travelling northwards; also, intended for such travellers, serving as a point of departure for the north. Also as n., a north-bound train.
1903Kipling Five Nations 115 We gather and wait her coming—The wonderful north-bound train. 1904W. N. Harben Georgians 217 The young man was at the seven-o'clock north-bound train when it stopped in the antiquated brick car-shed. 1939G. Household Rogue Male 78 At the bottom of the Piccadilly escalator you turn left for the north-bound trains... I ran on to the north⁓bound platform. 1973Sci. Amer. June 26/2 A slowing of the northbound Coastal Current. 1975D. Beaty Electric Train 232 ‘When's the next train?’ ‘No more northbounds tonight.’ |