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derailment

/dee-reyl-muhnt/US // diˈreɪl mənt //

脱轨,脱线,出轨,脱轨事件

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act or process of derailing.
    • : Psychiatry. loosening of associations.

Examples

  • Degradation in the vehicle and the track — neither of which by itself may be sufficient to cause a derailment — also could have led to the derailment, experts say.

  • These issues, auditors say, have led to collisions and derailments within other rail systems, as well as a minor collision of trains in 2004 on the Red Line at the Woodley Park station.

  • Between his election and inauguration, his 11-year-old son died in a train derailment and his vice president contracted a fatal illness.

  • There is hope for young workers like Risse, but avoiding a career derailment and a lost generation will require young job-seekers and employers alike to focus more on connection.

  • The Big Ten, which joined college football on the field this past weekend, joined it off the field Wednesday in the burgeoning category of scheduling derailments.

  • If Captain America can come back from the dead, then his current convalescence is only a temporary derailment.

  • The first of the seven cars in the Sunday morning train derailment in the Bronx had nearly gone into to the river.

  • In contrast, the derailment of talks would be welcomed by some of the loudest proponents of rushing to legislate new sanctions.

  • Security-camera footage capturing the derailment, which can be viewed here is pretty horrifying.

  • It was surging and bounding alarmingly over the uneven track, not without threatenings of derailment.

  • Ordinarily, the mere fact of a destructive derailment leaves little to be discovered when the cause is sought afterward.

  • It was a singular derailment, and at first none of the trainmen seemed to be able to account for it.

  • In case of derailment or other accident that might cause the fireman to desert his position in cab, what should he do?

  • This rail serves as a guide and suffices to prevent derailment.