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单词 start to stop
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start to stop
P11. start to stop: (chiefly with reference to the timing or scheduling of train journeys) from the moment when a vehicle begins to move to the moment when it comes to rest at its destination; frequently attributive (usually hyphenated).
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1888 National Car & Locomotive Builder Sept. 189/2 The highest average speed at which a train is timed from start to stop is just 54 miles an hour.]
1897 Speaker 4 Dec. 627/2 The fastest run in France was 44 miles an hour, start to stop.
1899 Railway Mag. 4 375/1 They comprise one of the best start-to-stop runs I have ever had on a British line.
1931 Times Educ. Suppl. 19 Sept. (Home & Classroom Suppl.) p. ii/2 (caption) The Great Western Railway Company regained this week the record for the fastest start-to-stop journey in the world.
1936 Discovery Nov. 356/1 Two or three runs booked, start-to-stop, at over 80 miles an hour.
1997 Rail 12 Mar. 29/3 Perhaps my most memorable and prized run of all..a Paddington–Reading HST run a few years ago which did the distance start to stop in 18 minutes, having run at about 140mph for virtually the entire distance!
2013 J. Holland A–Z of Famous Express Trains 42/2 (caption) With a start to stop speed between Swindon and Paddington booked at 71.3mph the ‘Flyer’ could rightfully make claim to being the ‘World's Fastest Train’.
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