| 词汇 | boxcar |
| 释义 | boxcar noun[ C ] USuk /ˈbɒks.kɑːr/ us /ˈbɑːks.kɑːr/ a railway carriage with a roof, used for carrying goods: （铁路上运送货物的）棚车 The boxcar left the train tracks but it remained upright. Fotosearch/GettyImages They crash into each other, like runaway boxcars hurtling off different trains. He said undocumented immigrants are in constant need of assistance, with plights ranging from getting caught in sealed boxcars to suffering snake bites. The world's largest smelter piped enough metals-laden slag into the river to fill four boxcars each day. Jackson grew up in a converted boxcar in southern Illinois. Railways: trains & parts of trains aerial tram aerial tramway bogie boiler bullet train carriage coach cowcatcher diesel emergency cord guard's van luggage van puffer train rolling stock shunter sleeper sleeping car smoker super-express third rail boxcar adjective[ before noun ] US/ˈbɒks.kɑːr//ˈbɑːks.kɑːr/ (of a number, price, etc.) very high: They are buying out smaller firms by offering them boxcar prices. People don't want to pay boxcar prices to watch Slovakia play Belarus in the World Juniors. The SAT scores tend to be boxcar numbers. His horse won at boxcar odds. Their horses ran first and second and paid boxcar prices. Big and quite big appreciable baronial bigly bloated bulky expansive grandly heaping hearty heftily hefty higher pumped rambling roomy royal royally savage sizable the bigger the betteridiom You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Large amounts of money Bunny and Sue crossed the street and walked along the string of boxcars, looking into those the doors of which were open. Is that freight? asked Sue, pointing to some broken boxes on the ground near a boxcar, the door of which stood open. Now he hurried to pass down the train to a boxcar with an open door. One day all of us who were able to walk were made to fall in and march over to the railroad, where we were loaded into boxcars. Rip had never seen an old-type railroad, or he might have likened the landing boat to a railroad boxcar. boxcar | American Dictionaryboxcar noun[ C ] us/ˈbɑksˌkɑr/ a railroad car with sliding doors and a roof, which is used to carry freight boxcar | Business Englishboxcar noun[ C ] TRANSPORTuk /ˈbɒkskɑːr/us US a covered railway car with sliding doors on its sides, used for transporting goods: Eight truckloads of merchandise a day are bound for the rail yard to be loaded onto boxcars. Examples of boxcarboxcar The signals were averaged with a boxcar integrator to improve upon the signal-to-noise ratio. We felt that the backchannel of the bottom speaker during the top speaker's utterance of "and then take the remaining boxcar down to" did not change the top speaker's actions. These are taller than regular boxcars and as such can only run on routes with increased clearance (see loading gauge and structure gauge). From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Marmon was diversified to include manufacturing concerns ranging from lumber to railroad boxcars, and travel industry staples. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The boxcar, while not the simplest freight car design, is probably the most versatile, since it can carry most loads. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In addition, the line owns 2 cabooses and many freight cars including, hoppers, boxcars and woodchip cars. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. There were also bought 37 closed freight cars, 40 lumber cars, 20 boxcars, 100 flatcars and three milk cars. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. They were able to output about one hundred tons of finished steel castings daily that were used in the construction of the railroad boxcars. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. On the railway itself, the old exchange sidings with the mainline were packed with rusting narrow gauge wagons and boxcars. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. This group was marched to the railroad station and placed in open boxcars. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The station also used an old boxcar as a tool shed for maintenance. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Thereafter, and until 1860, the majority of shipments were made in conventional boxcars that had been fitted with open-structured iron-barred doors for ventilation. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The locomotive was totally submerged with the attached wooden boxcars demolished. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. When necessary, chairs were placed in the boxcar for passengers. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He is forced to work for the railroad and is accidentally crushed by a boxcar. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. 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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