英语词汇“underground railway”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

c. underground railroad, underground railway, (a) a railway running under the surface of the ground, esp. beneath the streets and buildings of a city; also in other collocations, as underground line, underground service, etc. (now often attributive uses of the noun); (b) U.S. the secret system by which slaves were enabled to escape to the Free States and Canada; also underground line; also figurative.

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the world > action or operation > safety > escape > [noun] > means of escape > secret escape route

underground line1845

underground railroad1845

underground railway1845

society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > a railway > with specific situation or route > underground

sub-railway1835

underground railway1845

subway1864

underground1866

tube1900

tube railway1900

metro1904

Met1909

the Tube1924

U-bahn1938

clockwork orange1978

society > travel > rail travel > [noun] > operation of railways > specific type of service

shuttle service1892

rail link1910

underground service1926

Motorail1968

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1845 P. Barlow Manuf. in Encycl. Metrop. VIII. 240/1 The under-ground Railways..in Newcastle, and its immediate vicinity.

1883 E. W. Hamilton Diary 13 Nov. (1972) II. 505 The proposal of the Metropolitan Railway to run an underground line from the back of the India Office to Knightsbridge, and thence across the Park to the Marble Arch and up the Edgeware Road.

1885 C. E. Pascoe London of To-day xiii. 137 The stuffy underground railway journey to Baker Street.

1926 Times 6 May 3/1 In London most of the tube and underground services were in force or others were expected to be to-day.

1926 Daily Express 11 May 1/3 The Underground trains yesterday showed no difference from any ordinary Monday morning.

1975 J. Symons Three Pipe Probl. xviii. 204 He lost his way to the Underground station.

1982 G. Lyall Conduct of Major Maxim vii. 62 With the Under~ground map in his diary he worked out a route that involved two changes of train.

(b)1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. viii. 108 Till the gal's been carried on the underground line up to Sandusky or so.1856 H. B. Stowe Dred II. xxx. 318 An indefinite yet very energetic institution, known as the underground railroad.1868 C. M. Yonge Chaplet of Pearls I. xviii. 251 There was what in later times has been termed an under~ground railway amid the persecuted Calvinists.1875 N. Amer. Rev. 120 67 More fugitives than ever came from the slave states, and the underground railroad was in fuller activity than before.1940 Sun (Baltimore) 14 Oct. 2/3 A so-called ‘underground railway’ delivering prominent scholars and writers from Nazi-dominated parts of Europe.1979 R. Laidlaw Lion is Rampant xviii. 137 I could probably have got you smuggled to the Border via my ‘Underground Railway’.

单词	underground railway
释义	> as lemmas underground railway c. underground railroad, underground railway, (a) a railway running under the surface of the ground, esp. beneath the streets and buildings of a city; also in other collocations, as underground line, underground service, etc. (now often attributive uses of the noun); (b) U.S. the secret system by which slaves were enabled to escape to the Free States and Canada; also underground line; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > escape > [noun] > means of escape > secret escape route underground line1845 underground railroad1845 underground railway1845 society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > a railway > with specific situation or route > underground sub-railway1835 underground railway1845 subway1864 underground1866 tube1900 tube railway1900 metro1904 Met1909 the Tube1924 U-bahn1938 clockwork orange1978 society > travel > rail travel > [noun] > operation of railways > specific type of service shuttle service1892 rail link1910 underground service1926 Motorail1968 (a) 1845 P. Barlow Manuf. in Encycl. Metrop. VIII. 240/1 The under-ground Railways..in Newcastle, and its immediate vicinity. 1883 E. W. Hamilton Diary 13 Nov. (1972) II. 505 The proposal of the Metropolitan Railway to run an underground line from the back of the India Office to Knightsbridge, and thence across the Park to the Marble Arch and up the Edgeware Road. 1885 C. E. Pascoe London of To-day xiii. 137 The stuffy underground railway journey to Baker Street. 1926 Times 6 May 3/1 In London most of the tube and underground services were in force or others were expected to be to-day. 1926 Daily Express 11 May 1/3 The Underground trains yesterday showed no difference from any ordinary Monday morning. 1975 J. Symons Three Pipe Probl. xviii. 204 He lost his way to the Underground station. 1982 G. Lyall Conduct of Major Maxim vii. 62 With the Under~ground map in his diary he worked out a route that involved two changes of train. (b)1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. viii. 108 Till the gal's been carried on the underground line up to Sandusky or so.1856 H. B. Stowe Dred II. xxx. 318 An indefinite yet very energetic institution, known as the underground railroad.1868 C. M. Yonge Chaplet of Pearls I. xviii. 251 There was what in later times has been termed an under~ground railway amid the persecuted Calvinists.1875 N. Amer. Rev. 120 67 More fugitives than ever came from the slave states, and the underground railroad was in fuller activity than before.1940 Sun (Baltimore) 14 Oct. 2/3 A so-called ‘underground railway’ delivering prominent scholars and writers from Nazi-dominated parts of Europe.1979 R. Laidlaw Lion is Rampant xviii. 137 I could probably have got you smuggled to the Border via my ‘Underground Railway’. extracted from undergroundadj.n. < as lemmas
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