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词汇 main-line
释义 main line
noun[ C ]
uk /ˌmeɪn ˈlaɪn/ us /ˌmeɪn ˈlaɪn/
an important railway route between large towns or cities: (铁路的)干线
the main line between New York and Philadelphia连接纽约和费城的铁路干线
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Examples of main line


main line
Its mainline was that administrative personnel in the police forces had to be cut down, to make way for more policemen and police officers.
The mainline of the book relates to the development of the doctrine of creation.
All this suggests, therefore, that those in the mainline (chokkei) and their collaterals (bokei) were not on an equal footing.
A preliminary statement of this difficulty may serve to keep the mainline of argument clear.
This in turn can be related back to the mainline of argument.
Postcodes were used on the mainline to mark utterances that were incomplete, routines, imitations or repetitions.
Explanation is exclusive description - wiping out whatever is not relevant for the mainline of the narrative.
However, our mainline of analysis resonates most closely with those studies of violence that examine the production and reproduction of discourses of violence.
Initially, one might think that this demonstration has little to say to the mainline of discussion of language learnability for grammar.
That having been established, the mainline of argument in this section has also already demonstrated that these intentions must themselves be capable of complexity.
Critics must be in contact, intellectually and morally, with the mainline of cultural and ethical development, or at least with one of its necessary offshoots.
The mainline railways are just as bad.
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The mainline of attack in the debate seems rather inconsistent.
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Information on fatalities involving passengers falling from train doors on the west coast mainline is available only at disproportionate cost.
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They are the channel tunnel rail link and the west coast mainline modernisation and upgrade.
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