| 词汇 | railway |
| 释义 | railway noun[ C ] UKuk /ˈreɪl.weɪ/ us /ˈreɪl.weɪ/(USrailroad) A2 the metal tracks on which trains run: 铁路，铁道 We live close to the railway line.我们家离铁道线很近。 She travelled across Siberia on the Trans-Siberian railway.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 railway station/timetable/siding火车站／列车时刻表／铁路专用线等 Thomas Grant worked on the railway(s) for 50 years.托马斯‧格兰特在铁路系统工作了50年。 This area of the city is criss-crossed by railway lines.该城市的这个地区铁路线纵横交错。 The government has announced an ambitious programme to modernize the railway network. A bomb exploded at one of London's busiest railway stations this morning. The railway was built on a bed of solid rock.铁路建在硬石地基上。 There isn't any railway service on Sundays. Railways & railway lines aerial tram aerial tramway Amtrak artery branch line electrify funicular junction level crossing metro railroad RR siding signal signal box sleeper switch track unelectrified whistle-stop railway | Business Englishrailway noun TRANSPORT UKuk /ˈreɪlweɪ/us [ C or U ] a system of tracks that trains travel along: Only 2,262 miles of railway are being used, while 9,358 need repairs. a railway line/station/trackAny big changes to the railway lines in Britain's crowded South-East would need parliament's approval. [ C ] the companies, work, and people involved in transporting people and goods by train: The Indian railway is the world's largest employer, with 1.6m staff and 11m passengers a day. Examples of railwayrailway Relates to railroads, street railways, subways, streetcars, and fares; includes bills regulating automobile operation and driving. There are some schemes to provide subsidies for children and retired people to use railways and buses. Furthermore, vertical separation also offered a solution to channel politically-required subsidies into the railways via franchising. The coming of the railways eased this somewhat. The aim is to privatise electricity generation and supply, telecommunications, water and sewerage, railways and harbours. The catastrophic and the spectacular, unearthed in the railway's construction, have become a feature of its ongoing progress. Birds, butterflies, and flowers came to dominate definitives and development projects such as railways and dams reappeared on commemoratives. Outside this area the historical landscape becomes fragmented by an expanding network of railways and motorways. The railways remain a potent signifier of national unification in the early twenty-first century. The battle against inflation gave added momentum to this agenda, which was extended to include trucking, railways, and financial institutions. However, in subsequent years, both governments became increasingly involved in debating future regulatory options of the railways, in particular with regard to organisational structure. First, while both states 'privatised' their railways, they did so in different ways. From the viewpoint of the early 2000s, no other sector seems as appropriate for the study of failure than the railways. First, the growth in services such as running water and railways is well documented throughout the book. Whilst people moved further as a result of the railways, the fraction moving barely changed, nor did the type of destination (rural/town/urban). See all examples of railway 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. Collocations withrailwayrailwayThese are words often used in combination with railway. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. abandoned railway There was a railway line snaking over empty fields on which reposed abandoned railway trucks through which the bindweed grew profusely. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 central railway Four great groups will ultimately form the central railway systems of this country, and between them they own thirty undertakings. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 electric railway I understand that it was the first electricrailway in the world. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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. See all collocations with railway |
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