| 单词 | flying scotchman |
| 释义 | > as lemmasFlying Scotchman 5. In full Flying Scotchman. = Scotsman n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > train > passenger train > express or non-stop > specific Flying Dutchman1813 Scotsman1871 Flying Scotchman1872 Orient Express1883 Twentieth Century1902 Royal Scot1927 Rheingold1928 Red Arrow1934 trans-Siberian1939 TEE1963 1872 Times 25 Jan. 7/2 The Scotch express (popularly known as the ‘flying Scotchman’). 1873 J. Blackwood Let. 6 Jan. in ‘G. Eliot’ Lett. (1956) V. 365 ‘The Flying Scotchman’, the stoker's name for the train that goes between London and Edinburgh in little more than 9 hours! 1881 M. Reynolds Engine-driving Life 59 The same express-men..were proceeding down a bank..at about 3 a.m. in summer with the ‘Scotchman’. 1885 G. Dolby Dickens 33 A railway carriage which was being dragged along at the rate of fifty miles an hour by the ‘Flying Scotchman’. 1913 D. H. Lawrence Sons & Lovers vii. 165 You should see the Flying Scotchman come through. 1995 Northern Echo (Nexis) 5 Aug. The Flying Scotchman express train travelling south from Edinburgh collided with the back of a goods train heading in the same direction. < as lemmas |
| 随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。