| 词汇 | communication-cord |
| 释义 | communication cord noun[ C ] UKuk /kə.mjuː.nɪˈkeɪ.ʃən ˌkɔːd/ us /kə.mjuː.nəˈkeɪ.ʃən ˌkɔːrd/(USemergency cord) a chain in a railway carriage that a passenger can pull in an emergency to stop the train（火车上的）紧急制动索 Threats & warnings advance warning alarm alarm bell bell-ringing beware the ides of Marchidiom bow brushback pitch burglar alarm cautionary cautionary tale don't you dareidiom early warning system hear warning bellsidiom minatory one swallow doesn't make a summeridiom protection racket red alert red flag scare quotes yellow card You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Railways: trains & parts of trains So perhaps it'd be just as well for me not to have thought of the communication cord, eh? Then I made for the handle of the communication cord. Well, said the meek voice, "the cost of pulling a communication cord is I still five pounds, and you can have just as good a pull as ever." Why didn't you pull the communication cord? asked the station-master, pompously stern. Examples of communication cordcommunication cord The man pulled the communicationcord, and we stopped about 100 yards down the line. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think that the best thing to rely upon is a communicationcord which can be reached, or, in the case of ladies, special carriages. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He shirks the dangers and difficulties, and to-night he says that rather than embark on an express train he will pull the communicationcord. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The communicationcord was pulled. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They cannot sell a communicationcord. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They only realized that they were inside the enemy's location when they found a communicationcord from the enemy sentry's location. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Later, shorter six-wheeled and bogie compartment carriages were built for secondary services, and communication cords and steam heating were fitted in the early years of the twentieth century. 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. |
| 随便看 |
反思网英语在线翻译词典收录了377474条英语词汇在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的中英文双语翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。