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单词 derail
释义
derail
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When a train or a subway derails, its wheels accidentally leave the tracks. Train cars that derail can cause the cars behind them to crash.
Mistakes by engineers or flaws in the track can derail a train or trolley, sending it off the rails and sometimes injuring the passengers. You can also use the verb derail figuratively, to mean "hinder someone" or "divert a process from going in its intended direction." For example, terrorists might derail ongoing peace talks by blowing up a bus. The word comes from the French dérailler, "go off the rails."
WORD FAMILY
derail: derailed, derailing, derailment, derails+/derailment: derailments
USAGE EXAMPLES
He refused to let intermittent monsoons derail his appointed rounds.
Golf Digest(Jan 02, 2017)
The city’s transportation board first envisioned a Second Avenue subway in 1929, but the stock market crash and the Great Depression derailed the plan.
Seattle Times(Dec 31, 2016)
The International Monetary Fund warned in October a $17.5 billion bailout program risked getting derailed if Kiev failed to show "concrete results" in tackling corruption.
Reuters(Dec 29, 2016)
1v run off or leave the rails
the train derailed because a cow was standing on the tracks
Syn|Hyper
jump
go, locomote, move, travel
change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
2v cause to run off the tracks
they had planned to derail the trains that carried atomic waste
Hyper
counteract, countermine, sabotage, subvert, undermine, weaken
destroy property or hinder normal operations
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