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trolley

/trol-ee/US // ˈtrɒl i //UK // (ˈtrɒlɪ) //

小车,手推车,小推车,推车

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
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    plural trol·leys.

    • : trolley car.
    • : a pulley or truck traveling on an overhead track and serving to support and move a suspended object.
    • : a grooved metallic wheel or pulley carried on the end of a pole by an electric car or locomotive, and held in contact with an overhead conductor, usually a suspended wire , from which it collects the current for the propulsion of the car or locomotive.
    • : any of various devices for collecting current for such a purpose, as a pantograph, or a bowlike structure sliding along an overhead wire, or a device for taking current from the underground wire or conductor used by some electric railways.
    • : a small truck or car operated on a track, as in a mine or factory.
    • : a serving cart, as one used to serve desserts.
    • : Chiefly British. any of various low carts or vehicles, as a railway handcar or costermonger's cart.
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    trol·leyed, trol·ley·ing.

    • : to convey or go by trolley.

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Examples

  • The early-stage startup has invented tech that attaches to the trolley and uses cameras to detect and label products, adding them to a virtual cart where shoppers can checkout without ever interacting with a human or waiting in a line.

  • There was a period in the late 1980s, Dave Schumacher, the former San Diego Association of Governments principle planner, told us in 2013, that regional planners contemplated building a trolley spur to the airport.

  • The Metropolitan Transit System is on the verge of hiring a new security firm to help patrol bus and trolley stations that has touted a record free of troubling use-of-force incidents.

  • The Housing Commission also ran ads on billboards, bus benches, in community newspapers and inside trolleys and buses in both English and Spanish.

  • The agency once said it would improve trolley service along the Blue Line in the South Bay, and to construct a new Purple Line along the I-805 corridor.

  • Mubarak was present, wheeled in on a hospital trolley and wearing his trademark sunglasses.

  • There, Orange Scott ran the interurban, a turn-of-the-century electric trolley line that connected the boomtown with its exurbs.

  • Four men in army uniform are seen loading massive safes onto a trolley.

  • A male suicide bomber was also believed to have detonated the Monday blast, which decimated the back half of a trolley bus.

  • Nico steered a luggage trolley piled high with Pippa's bags through the arrivals hall.

  • The great Dam at Assouan was just completed and we traversed its entire length on a trolley propelled by natives.

  • Presently the thought of the cool trolley-run to the Lake grew irresistible, and they struggled out of the theatre.

  • The trolley is an articulated frame 77 ft. long in five sections coupled together with pins.

  • I thought how at college I used to hear from my chamber the screech of trolley cars rounding a curve and biting my nerves.

  • To reach it from the outer sections of the district, the tracks used by nine lines of trolley cars must be crossed.