| 单词 | train platform |
| 释义 | > as lemmastrain platform train platform n. (a) a platform at a railway station; = platform n. 2c; (b) an open area at the end of a railway carriage (now rare). ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > station > platform platform1838 train platform1865 island platform1885 1863 Builder 23 May 377/3 At the Shrubhill Station, Worcester, in addition to the new up-train platform..various important works..are in progress.] 1865 Hours at Home June 189/1 The occasions that called for this train-platform oratory were too trifling in themselves. 1879 All Year Round 23 Aug. 231/1 Without much ado I was surrounded, pushed about, and thrown off the train-platform on to the plain. 1931 G. Irwin Amer. Tramp & Underworld Slang 156 Red light, to do away with. The term originated with the..custom of disposing of an undesirable member of a circus or carnival crew by taking him out on a train platform after dark and hurling him off the train. 2005 Asiana Spring 97/2 Yet kissing between two people in love, whether it's in a soppy romantic comedy or somewhere everyday like on a train platform, leaves anyone with a mushy heart thinking: ‘aww’. < as lemmas |
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