| 词汇 | railroad |
| 释义 | railroad noun[ C ] USuk /ˈreɪl.rəʊd/ us /ˈreɪl.roʊd/(UKrailway); (written abbreviationRR) the metal tracks on which trains run: 铁路，铁道 We live close to the railroad line.我们家离铁道线很近。 She travelled across Siberia on the Trans-Siberian railroad.她乘火车沿西伯利亚铁路横穿西伯利亚。 tbradford/iStock/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages A2 the system of tracks, stations, trains, etc.: 铁路系统 a railroad station/timetable/siding火车站／列车时刻表／铁路专用线等 Thomas Grant worked on the railroad(s) for 50 years.托马斯‧格兰特在铁路系统工作了50年。 We see that freight railroads make good profits while rendering excellent service.我们看到铁路货运公司在提供优质服务的同时也赢得了丰厚的利润。 The railroads have lost a lot of business to trucking companies. The bridge carries the railroad across the river. The book discusses the decline of the railroads in the United States. It was the worst railroad disaster in Indian history. Railways & railway lines aerial tram aerial tramway Amtrak artery branch line electrify funicular junction level crossing light railway metro RR siding signal signal box sleeper switch track unelectrified whistle-stop railroad verb[ Tusually+ adv/prep ] uk /ˈreɪl.rəʊd/ us /ˈreɪl.roʊd/ to force something to happen or force someone to do something, especially quickly or unfairly: （尤指以仓促或不公正的方式）强迫，迫使 We were railroaded into signing the agreement.我们被迫仓促签定协议。 Causing somebody to act arm-twisting bludgeon bounce someone into something browbeat someone into something/doing something bull something through coerce coercion dragoon someone into something drive someone/something to something duress force someone's handidiom forced marriage push (someone) toward(s) something push something through put the heat on someoneidiom put/tighten the screws on someoneidiom rallying cry ransom slap wring railroad adjective[ before noun ] USuk /ˈreɪl.rəʊd/ us /ˈreɪl.roʊd/ (of a room or building) long and narrow: In her railroad apartment, one room follows the next. We extended the old railroad kitchen and now have a large, open-plan kitchen-diner. Narrow and thin attenuate attenuated attenuation elongate narrow narrowness tapering thin thinly ultra-thin wafer-thin wasp waist You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Architecture railroad | American Dictionaryrailroad noun[ C ] us/ˈreɪlˌroʊd/(alsorailway, us/ˈreɪlˌweɪ/) railroadnoun[C] (TRANSPORTATION)a system of transportation using special vehicles whose wheels turn on metal bars fixed to the ground, or a particular company using such a system: railroad tracks a railroad station the Pennsylvania Railroad railroad verb[ Talways+ adv/prep ] us/ˈreɪlˌroʊd/ railroadverb[T always + adv/prep] (FORCE)to force something to happen or force someone to do something, esp. quickly and unfairly: We feel that our client was railroaded into pleading guilty. railroad | Business Englishrailroad noun TRANSPORT USuk /ˈreɪlrəʊd/us [ C or U ] a system of tracks that trains travel along: A potential client turned down the site because it isn't near a railroad. a railroad car/track/bridge, etc.Downtown is bordered at one end by railroad tracks, the other end by a bayou. a railroad depot/station [ C ] the companies, work, and people involved in transporting people and goods by train: We understand the railroads need to make a profit. After dropping out of school, he worked on the railroad. railroad verb[ T ] uk /ˈreɪlrəʊd/us to force somebody to do or accept something without allowing them to refuse: railroad sb into doing sthWe felt we were being railroaded into accepting a deal. railroad sb into sthWe could be railroaded into a merger. Unfortunately, this scheme is being railroaded through Westminster under the pretext of immigration control. Examples of railroadrailroad 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. See all examples of railroad 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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