| 单词 | rail |
| 释义 | rail (reɪl ) Word forms: rails , railing , railed 1. countable noun A rail is a horizontal bar attached to posts or fixed round the edge of something as a fence or support. They had to walk across an emergency footbridge, holding onto a rope that served as a rail. She gripped the thin rail in the lift. Synonyms: handle, railing, shaft, banister 2. countable noun A rail is a horizontal bar that you hang things on. ...frocks hanging from a rail. This pair of curtains will fit a rail up to 7ft 6in wide. 3. countable noun [usually plural] B2 Rails are the steel bars which trains run on. The train left the rails but somehow forced its way back onto the line. Synonyms: track, points 4. uncountable noun [oft NOUN noun] B1 If you travel or send something by rail, you travel or send it on a train. The president traveled by rail to his home town. ...the electric rail link between Manchester and Sheffield. 5. verb If you rail against something, you criticize it loudly and angrily. [written] He railed against hypocrisy and greed. [V + against/at] I'd cursed him and railed at him. [V against/at n] Synonyms: complain, attack, abuse, blast 6. See also railing 7. back on the rails phrase If something is back on the rails, it is beginning to be successful again after a period when it almost failed. [journalism] They are keen to get the negotiating process back on the rails. Her career is back on the rails. 8. go off the rails phrase If someone goes off the rails, they start to behave in a way that other people think is unacceptable or very strange, for example they start taking drugs or breaking the law. They've got to do something about these children because clearly they've gone off the rails. Synonyms: complain Collocations: overhead rail Emergency planners expect power blackouts and travel chaos as the high winds bring down power lines and overhead rail cables. The Sun The pedal-powered pods, hanging from two 200yd-long overhead rail circuits, are designed to reach speeds of 40mph and swing out 60 degrees from vertical on tight curves. Times, Sunday Times This ammunition car sometimes had its own overhead rail to move the shells forward to where the trolley in the mount could reach it through a hatch in the roof. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In 1894, his machine was tested with overhead rails to prevent it from rising. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The top floor was assembled with a lattice of overhead rails. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Second, they will stress that rail capacity cannot be delivered without a new line. Times,Sunday Times It will transform rail capacity between the major conurbations. Times, Sunday Times Peers said arguments that it would increase rail capacity and rebalance the economy were unproven. The Sun Driverless cars and digital signalling will free up road and rail capacity. Times, Sunday Times Why don't we have sufficient rail capacity? Times, Sunday Times Their journeys are being eased by another round of rail improvements. Times, Sunday Times He suggests slapping taxes on internal plane routes to help pay for rail improvements. The Sun All three schemes involve rail improvements for which the port owners themselves must pay, but this will do little to alleviate pressure on the roads. Times, Sunday Times The project was cancelled, and subsequent rail improvements concentrated on surface projects and the introduction of light rail. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They said that the rail route would deliver additional work as it unlocked further projects. Times,Sunday Times By late afternoon, they were using cranes to remove the twisted wreckage from the tracks and unblock the key rail route. Times, Sunday Times A construction company or train operator will be invited to maintain a regional rail route within two years, under proposals unveiled yesterday. Times, Sunday Times The rail route was closed while repairs are carried out. Times, Sunday Times It was designed that way back in 1833; a rail route ahead of its time, with the best locomotives and the roomiest rolling stock. Times, Sunday Times Rail safety officials counter that not everyone looks both ways before crossing the tracks. Times, Sunday Times The report recommended a review of rail safety procedures. The Sun Please, make sure you know the rail safety basics and pass that knowledge onto your loved ones. Times,Sunday Times After months of medical treatment, and still wearing a surgical mask, she set up a survivors' group to campaign for rail safety. Times, Sunday Times A rail safety expert visited the site in 2011. Times, Sunday Times As recent studies have shown, the objectors' arguments that the present structures will permit a better rail service are simply not borne out. Times, Sunday Times Until 2006, it was the only rail service between the two countries and acts as a critical artery connecting divided families and warring cultures. Times, Sunday Times Eight million passengers a year travel through the tunnel, the largest inter-capital rail service in the world. Times, Sunday Times Nor would it be realistic to expect a decline in days lost through strikes if the rail service were nationalised. Times,Sunday Times The plan said that demand for rail travel was being added to by road congestion, a healthy economy and a better rail service. Times, Sunday Times Drivers are now poised to join the action, which critics have claimed is designed to damage the privatised rail system. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Plans for the high-speed rail system to cut an underground swath through one of the capital's most exclusive neighbourhoods has caused uproar. Times, Sunday Times (2010) Labour talk of a new train terminus, but our rail system is a shambles. The Sun (2009) The city and its environs quickly grew with the railroads, becoming a major rail terminal in the late 1860s and 1870s. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It was founded as a rail terminal for the area, and still serves as such. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The building lobby currently displays a number of artifacts left over from its days as once an exceptionally active interurban rail terminal. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There were plans for a new rail terminal, joined to the airport's passenger terminal and multi-storey car park. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This combined rail terminal and office block was the first of its kind in any city. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There's one around a pipeline set in snow, a massive desert arena, one in woodland and one around a rail track. The Sun The set was built with lifelike towns, five miles of rail track and two steam trains. Times, Sunday Times A 500-metre stretch of rail track that cost 8.8million was finally opened yesterday more than a year late. The Sun The biggest problem has been the sheer size of the factory: it covers 3,000 hectares, has five kilometres of rail track and 482 buildings spanning about 3 million sq ft. Times, Sunday Times From the helicopter we could see the odd ghostly bit of rail track punctuating the endless tundra. Globe and Mail This may prove pessimistic; the benefit will be nearly double if demand for rail travel continues to grow. Times, Sunday Times The rapid growth of rail travel in recent years has led to some old rolling stock coming out of retirement. Times, Sunday Times Passenger satisfaction with rail travel has slumped to its lowest level in a decade. Times, Sunday Times Passenger groups fear that the move will make long distance rail travel less attractive and push passengers back into cars and planes. Times, Sunday Times The three businesswomen dining at the adjacent table all agreed that, without restaurant cars, rail travel would be much less pleasurable. Times, Sunday Times So, come on all you would-be rail travellers, let's support this service and maybe we will see more routes opening up in the future. ST Trains are not for all - not in a nation where daily commuters are the only regular rail travellers and many citizens have never boarded one. Times, Sunday Times His work continued to be enjoyed by rail travellers long after his role ceased on privatisation in 1994. Times, Sunday Times Rail travellers could be missing out on cheaper tickets because some companies' machines do not display rivals' fares or a full range of off-peak options. Times, Sunday Times Rail travellers can now see the flowers of yellow (or common) toadflax growing between unused lines. Times, Sunday Times It will be the longest combined road and rail tunnel in the world with a motorway, two railway tracks and a service and emergency corridor. Times,Sunday Times All four buildings were linked by a subterranean rail tunnel served by small steam locomotives. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Car shuttle trains commonly operate through a rail tunnel connecting two places not easily accessible to each other by road. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It was at the western end of the rail tunnel and was caused by floodwater coming from a nearby disused canal tunnel. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A cross channel rail tunnel was first proposed in 1802 and construction actually started in 1881 before being abandoned. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The pace was faster on the far side and he might have been at a disadvantage racing against the stands' side rail. The Sun (2014) Green hemolymph oozed out, working its way slowly down the side rail of the dilapidated ladder, its pungent odor thick in the air. MINUTES TO BURN (2001) Translations: Chinese: 扶手 Japanese: 柵 |
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