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streetcar

/street-kahr/US // ˈstritˌkɑr //UK // (ˈstriːtˌkɑː) //

有轨电车,街车,马车,马路杀手

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a public vehicle running regularly along certain streets, usually on rails, as a trolley car or trolley bus.

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Examples

  • If it safe for people to ride on our buses, and it is safe for people to ride on our streetcar.

  • Those early streetcar systems “drew together the scattered settlements of the time, bringing them all into cityness.”

  • Houses, streetcar lines, railroad tracks, telegraph and telephone lines, bridges and highways were washed out.

  • The restaurant’s name acknowledges the historic building’s past as a bank, the city’s past as a streetcar stop and the flowering herb native to Washington state, home to Mount Rainier.

  • Plays like A Streetcar Named Desire and Summer and Smoke dramatized his divided soul.

  • “Yeah, me and Streetcar had a lot of fun with that book,” Suffridge was saying.

  • The po-boy traces its roots back to the New Orleans streetcar labor union strike in 1929.

  • In Sweden it includes a year of mandated maternity leave and a well-run streetcar system.

  • From ‘Streetcar’ to Kim Cattrall, Janice Kaplan surveys the shows and actors the Tony Award nominations overlooked.

  • The streets of these towns were crowded with traffic and streetcar lines are numerous.

  • Do you remember a little incident which occurred in a streetcar some six weeks ago?

  • Probably no one else on the streetcar beside myself noticed there wasn't a single passenger car, truck or bus that passed us.

  • Sometimes we would break away and take a streetcar, till an order was issued forbidding our doing it.

  • He walked rapidly to the streetcar and took a seat, with a thoughtful expression on his countenance.