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

day car n. (a) (in Ireland) a horse-drawn carriage for conveying passengers making a journey in one day; cf. day coach n. 1 (now historical and rare); (b) North American an ordinary railway passenger carriage, esp. as distinguished from a sleeping car; cf. day coach n. 2.In sense (a) apparently used only with reference to the day car service established in Ireland by Charles Bianconi (1786–1875) in the first half of the 19th cent. (see quot. 1830).

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1830 Rep. Select Comm. State of Poor in Ireland 5 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 667) VII. 1 The facilities of transport and of conveyance have been augmented; a striking example of which is given in the establishment of day cars by Mr. Bianconi in the south-east of Ireland.

1858 White River Valley (Worthington, Indiana) Times 19 Mar. The car is so arranged that..it can be changed from an open day car into a long room with three tiers of berths on each side.

1870 W. F. Rae Westward by Rail (1871) 50 This company build and run their own elegant sleeping coaches and palace day cars.

1991 Incentive Today Oct. 74/3 Each carriage now boasts the same pre-war elegance displayed in the day cars.

2002 J. Hume Derry Beyond Walls viii. 129 A day-car, established in 1836, covered the journey [from Derry to Belfast] in 10 hours.

单词	day car
释义	> as lemmas day car day car n. (a) (in Ireland) a horse-drawn carriage for conveying passengers making a journey in one day; cf. day coach n. 1 (now historical and rare); (b) North American an ordinary railway passenger carriage, esp. as distinguished from a sleeping car; cf. day coach n. 2.In sense (a) apparently used only with reference to the day car service established in Ireland by Charles Bianconi (1786–1875) in the first half of the 19th cent. (see quot. 1830). ΚΠ 1830 Rep. Select Comm. State of Poor in Ireland 5 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 667) VII. 1 The facilities of transport and of conveyance have been augmented; a striking example of which is given in the establishment of day cars by Mr. Bianconi in the south-east of Ireland. 1858 White River Valley (Worthington, Indiana) Times 19 Mar. The car is so arranged that..it can be changed from an open day car into a long room with three tiers of berths on each side. 1870 W. F. Rae Westward by Rail (1871) 50 This company build and run their own elegant sleeping coaches and palace day cars. 1991 Incentive Today Oct. 74/3 Each carriage now boasts the same pre-war elegance displayed in the day cars. 2002 J. Hume Derry Beyond Walls viii. 129 A day-car, established in 1836, covered the journey [from Derry to Belfast] in 10 hours. extracted from dayn. < as lemmas
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