词汇 | derailment |
释义 | derailment noun[ C or U ] uk /ˌdiːˈreɪl.mənt/ us /ˌdiːˈreɪl.mənt/ the fact of a train coming off the railway tracks: (火车)脱轨 There's been a derailment just outside the city, and many people are feared dead.城外发生了脱轨事故,恐怕有很多人死亡。 The number of train derailments has risen.火车脱轨事件的数量上升了。 See derail murengstockphoto/iStock/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages The derailment occurred as the train moved through a curved section of track. New fears over Tube safety have emerged following the derailment at Camden Town. They had not determined what caused the derailment. On the road: accidents involving vehicles anti-collision bird strike brake bump car crash car wreck collide with someone/something fender bender overshoot pile (something) up post-crash roadkill RTA rubbernecker rubbernecking run someone/something down sideswipe smash spin stack Examples of derailmentderailment Those same themes were the central questions in a remarkable series of cases arising out of a single train derailment in 1852. Disorganization, or thought disorder, is characterized by derailment, illogicality, and inappropriate affect. A derailment of the system as a whole is not an issue that is in the mental setup of most of today's macroeconomists. The hazard in the two cases is for the purposes of analysis identical: loss of lives through derailment of a train. Because personality psychopathology usually begins in adolescence or early adulthood, the potential for derailments in occupational trajectories and in the development of mature interpersonal relationships is great. To expose the economic programme to the risk of dilution and derailment was a high cost for a government facing a tremendous economic crisis and problems of political credibility.#! Similarly, failure of self-monitoring of speech could lead to a failure to edit out material that is irrelevant to the topic at hand, leading to derailment and tangentiality. By their nature, they require major institutional and legal changes and involve a much broader range of actors, which make them more vulnerable to vetoes, dilutions, delays and derailments. They include all derailments and most collisions but exclude minor incidents: details of the latter are given in the annual reports. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The golden economic legacy has turned into a boom-bust economic derailment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Emergency services were called within 10 minutes of the derailment and arrived on the scene without delay. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Ten of the freight train derailments occurred on lines not normally used by passenger trains. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The provisional figure for freight train derailments in 1968 is 336. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Firm figures for 1968 are not yet available, but there were 284 freight train derailments in 1967. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Many derailments have been due to outdated rolling stock rather than the condition of the rail. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of derailment 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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