| 单词 | elevated railroad |
| 释义 | > as lemmaselevated railroad a. Raised up; (of buildings, etc.) reared aloft; (of the hands) uplifted; (Geography) situated at a high level. elevated pole (see quot.). elevated railway: a railway supported on pillars above the street-level; also (U.S.) elevated highway, elevated railroad, elevated road; so elevated station, elevated train; elliptical as n. = elevated railway, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > high position > [adjective] > elevated in position raiseda1450 elevated1553 mounted1601 upmounted1616 pinnacled1863 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > raising > [adjective] > raised rearedc1330 araisedc1340 loft14.. upraisedc1400 upreared1422 raiseda1450 uplentc1450 sublevate?1523 enhancedc1540 elevated1553 well-raised1575 elevate1598 extolled1608 exalteda1616 relevated1635 elatea1730 1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Jjv The south pole..is there eleuated fortie & syxe degrees. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 434 The intelligible faculty of the Soule, as the Queene and Princesse of the rest should sit in an eleuated Tribunall. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xlii. 290 To elect..by plurality of elevated hands. 1674 W. Lloyd Difference Church & Court of Rome 7 The idolatrous Worship of the elevated Wafer. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth I. 200 Rivers have their source either in mountains, or elevated lakes. 1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine (1858) i. 11 Um Shaumer, the most elevated summit of the whole range. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Elevated Pole, that..pole which is above the horizon. 1868 N.Y. Tribune 1 July 8/2 The remarkable work of constructing an elevated railway..was again on trial yesterday. 1868 N.Y. Tribune 1 July 8/6 The elevated railroad through Greenwich street has ‘gone up’ higher than was contemplated in the charter of the company. 1868 Commerc. & Financial Chron. VI. 361/1 Three tiers of roads could be constructed; a basement road..a surface road..and an elevated road. 1880 Harper's Mag. Sept. 563 The buzzing which vibrates in the air comes from an elevated railway. 1881 Scribner's Monthly May 159/2 The clatter and roar and groaning wail of the Elevated train. 1881 W. G. Marshall Through Amer. 24 The effect of the ‘elevated’—the ‘L’, as New Yorkers generally call it—is, to my mind, anything but beautiful. 1884 N.Y. Herald 27 Oct. 2/2 Commodious First Flat; Rent $37; Elevated Station 86th st. 1890 Cent. Mag. Nov. 45 In those days there were no elevated roads. 1901 Scribner's Mag. 29 454/1 In the street the Ninth Avenue Elevated train roared by... The cobble-stones on Sixth Avenue were shining under the Elevated. 1906 ‘O. Henry’ Four Million 8 Standing under a gas-light and looking over the elevated road at the moon. 1945 W. Maxwell Folded Leaf 257 They rode on the elevated railway. 1947 Harper's Mag. May 453/2 The remaining eighty per cent [of the population] cling to the greasy straps of the antiquated, unsanitary, dilapidated, and dangerous Elevated. 1963 P.M.L.A. Dec. p. vii/2 (list) U.K. flyover: U.S. elevated highway. < as lemmas |
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