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railway

/reyl-wey/US // ˈreɪlˌweɪ //UK // (ˈreɪlˌweɪ) //

铁路,铁路方面,铁路运输,铁路部门

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a rail line with lighter-weight equipment and roadbed than a main-line railroad.
    • : a railroad, especially one operating over relatively short distances.
    • : Also called trackway. any line or lines of rails forming a road of flanged-wheel equipment.
    • : Chiefly British. railroad.

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Examples

  • US policymakers have earmarked 7% of the $1 trillion infrastructure bill making its way through the Senate for greater broadband access, nearly as much as it’s investing in the nation’s railways.

  • Today the water is still bottled in town, but the old railway that delivered travelers into town has been converted into a 20-mile-long rail trail that’s perfect for running.

  • We laid railway tracks and paved roadways that spanned continents.

  • Texas Central Railway, a private railway company, is in talks to build a high-speed line connecting Dallas and Houston.

  • According to a plan issued by the State Council in February 2021, China will be home to 200,000 kilometers of railways by 2035.

  • All in all, approximately 13,000 Allied POWs and 90,000 Asian laborers perished while working on the railway.

  • Manttan is keen to carry out research on that Burmese side of the railway as his father worked on that section.

  • A dam now in place on the Thai side of the line prevents the railway from being reconstructed in its entirety, he explains.

  • They recorded 10,549 graves on or near the railway in 144 cemeteries, failing to locate only 52 graves.

  • Two years later, Death Metal Angola is readying for its premiere, and the railway film remains unfinished.

  • On his arrival at the local railway station he was met by his lordship in person.

  • Be that as it may, the Railway Clearing House, as a practical entity, came into being in 1842.

  • Four-wheeled railway carriages are, I was going to say, a thing of the past; but that is not so.

  • From pre-natal days I was destined for the railway service, as an oyster to its shell.

  • Eighteen hundred and fifty-one was a period of anxiety to the Midland and to railway companies generally.