| 单词 | rail carriage |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrail carriage rail carriage n. (a) a railway carriage, a railcar; (b) transportation by rail. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > railway wagon or carriage > carriage designed to carry passengers steam-carriage1788 railway carriage1824 carriage1825 railroad carriage1826 railroad car1829 railroad coach1829 rail carriage1831 coach1832 passenger car1832 steam-car1833 passenger carriage1838 passenger coach1841 day coach1869 bogie1919 clockwork orange1978 1831 Mechanics' Mag. 7 May 148/1 It will..become the habit of persons..to go directly to the nearest point of the railway in their vicinity, and there to be taken up by the rail-carriages. 1848 E. Fitzgerald Let. 2 Dec. (1980) I. 625 This..puts me in mind of the transitoriness of earthly things—rail carriage among them. 1856 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 10 May in Eng. Notebks. (1997) II. iv. 27 We were none the wiser for what we saw out of the window of the rail-carriage. 1965 Land Econ. 41 170/1 Minimum cost transportation would include much of water transportation and of rail carriage. 2007 Irish Times (Nexis) 20 Feb. 12 Little was left of two rail carriages as a raging fire swept through them. < as lemmas |
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