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

ca·boose

(kə-bs)

1. The last car on a freight train, often having kitchen and sleeping facilities for the train crew, and used as a vantage point for spotting problems on the train, such as smoking brakes or the separation of cars. The introduction of electronic sensors has made the caboose unnecessary.

2. Archaic

a. A ship's galley.

b. Any of various cast-iron cooking ranges used in such galleys during the early 1800s.

c. An outdoor oven or fireplace.

[Possibly from obsolete Dutch cabuse, ship's galley, from Middle Low German kabūse : perhaps *kab-, cabin; akin to Old French cabane; see CABIN + Middle High German hūs, house.]

单词	caboose
释义	ca·boose (kə-bs) n. 1. The last car on a freight train, often having kitchen and sleeping facilities for the train crew, and used as a vantage point for spotting problems on the train, such as smoking brakes or the separation of cars. The introduction of electronic sensors has made the caboose unnecessary. 2. Archaic a. A ship's galley. b. Any of various cast-iron cooking ranges used in such galleys during the early 1800s. c. An outdoor oven or fireplace. [Possibly from obsolete Dutch cabuse, ship's galley, from Middle Low German kabūse : perhaps kab-, cabin; akin to Old French cabane; see CABIN + Middle High German hūs*, house.]
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