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单词 trans-american
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trans-American
8. in geographical adjectives, formed as in sense 7, with the sense ‘passing across, crossing’, as in trans-African, trans-Algerian, trans-American, trans-Andean (-ian, -ine), trans-Antarctic, trans-Arabian, trans-Asiatic, trans-Australian, trans-Balkan, trans-Canada, trans-Manchurian, trans-Mersey, trans-Mongolian, trans-Pyrenean, trans-Saharan, trans-Siberian, trans-Sierran, trans-Tasman, etc. Many of these occur also in sense 7.
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1846 R. Ford Gatherings from Spain iv. 31 Newfangled transpyrenean reforms, innovations, and botherations.
1880 Nature 4 Mar. 424/2 The future Transalgerian Railway Company.
1884 Notes on Bks. (Longman's) 31 May 247 The Transandine exploring and surveying expedition of 1871–2.
1886 Liverpool Courier 16 Jan. Assisting in opening the trans-Mersey Railway.
1888 Times 20 Sept. 3/6 Denham, Clapperton, Barth, and other trans-Saharan travellers.
1898 Chambers's Jrnl. 1 543/2 8000 feet above sea-level, the highest point to which the Trans-Andean railway had been carried.
1901 Daily Chron. 13 Nov. 3/3 The reported adoption..of the trans-American route for the conveyance of the Australian mails.
1903 Daily Chron. 17 Mar. 6/6 The project of a Trans-Pyrenean railway is thoroughly practicable.
1907 Westm. Gaz. 26 Oct. 16/3 This trans-African voyage of Mr. Savage Landor.
1908 Busy Man's Mag. Apr. 95 The Proposed Route of the Trans-Canada Rail~way.
1908 Edinb. Rev. July 146 The trans-Niger railway, destined to..open up to commerce a magnificent agricultural region.
1916 R. K. Wood Tourist's N.W. 315 A campaign for the improvement and construction of roads which..shall in combination form a trans-Canada motor route.
1933 Geogr. Jrnl. 82 470 Mr. Lincoln Ellsworth..will then make the Transantarctic flight, which is the sole object of the expedition.
1935 E. B. Buckbee Saga Old Tuolumne 385 The road survived until the State of California came to look with favour upon its possibilities as a tran-Sierran [sic] road.
1938 Times 17 Feb. 13/4 The flying-boat Centaurus showed her unsuitability for trans-Tasman traffic.
1950 Pacific Discovery Mar.–Apr. 4/1 Did you know that a trans-Sierran highway is now being built in Madera County?
1963 P. Drackett Motor Rallying iv. 62 The Trans-Canada and Canadian Winter Rallies have not yet reached the lofty eminence of the Safari.
1965 E. McCourt Road across Canada 199 The Trans-Canada Highway is an engineering, communications, and scenic marvel.
1966 N. Marsh Black Beech & Honeydew viii. 175 In..1928 the trans-Tasman steamer sailed..into Cook Strait.
1978 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Aug. 957/4 Shackleton's unsuccessful transantarctic expedition.
1978 J. Updike Coup (1979) i. 4 The capital is Istiqlal, renamed in 1960, upon independence, and on prior maps called Cailliéville, in honor of the trans-Saharan traveller of 1828.
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