| 词汇 | example_english_railroad |
| 释义 | Examples of railroadThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. But by the opening decade of the twentieth century the railroads had become victims of their own success. Part of the increase in the number of weeks worked and wages earned between 1834 and 1837 was due to new work on the railroad. Between 1862 and 1872, the federal government spent millions of dollars and allotted over 100 million acres of land to railroad corporations. This period also witnessed an increase in railroad mileage as well as growth in such industries as timbering, sawmills, and cotton textile mills. These three opinions, however, did not complete the transformation with regard to the liabilities of railroads to passengers. A want of proper circumspection on their part is liable to produce disastrous consequences to railroad travelers, as well as to themselves. Hundreds of blues songs treat the railroad thematically. And, before the railroad, travel was difficult enough to preclude any sort of concert circuit of touring virtuosos, even had the demand been there. As a similar mediating device, the railroad topic forms an interesting parallel to the crossroads mythology in the blues. It would have required millions of dollars and taken many years to develop adequate railroad and highway networks. All letters and packages were collected, sorted and distributed in a railway mail car, usually owned by the railroad company that owned the track. An answer to that question requires a detailed analysis of the world the workers came from and local perceptions of railroad work. So long as the railroad's lawyers tried to argue on traditional property rights grounds, their case was hopeless. One of these songs particularly captures the association of the railroad with crossroads mythology by invoking the dilemma of decision-making. One could not assume that the purposes of a railroad association were benign. Relates to railroads, street railways, subways, streetcars, and fares; includes bills regulating automobile operation and driving. While the railroad car mediates between distant locales, the railroad track mediates between contiguous neighbourhoods and divergent social classes. More to the point, railroads were bound under their charters by duties to the public at large. Passengers were in contractual privity with railroad companies as common carriers, and therefore were already covered by a set of duties of care. The reason was simple, and singularly applicable to railroads: common carriers operated businesses that were essential to society. The pioneering thinking on the imperative of a publicityoriented seeing state was undertaken by government officials concerned with railroads. Building railroads in the late twentieth century is a different matter. The even stronger 1922 earthquake damaged buildings, cut phone service, and stopped the railroad. In general, states were careful to allow mergers of railroads that connected to form continuous lines, while prohibiting mergers of competing lines. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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