underground railway

地下铁路地下铁道地下铁地下鐵路

underground railway 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. Also called underground railway. a railroad running through a continuous tunnel, as under city streets; subway.
  2. U.S. History. a system for helping African Americans fleeing slavery to escape into Canada or other places of safety.

underground railway 近义词

underground railway

等同于 railroad

underground railway

等同于 underground railroad

underground railway 的近义词 2

更多underground railway例句

  1. In one second-grade homework assignment, a multiple-choice answer about Harriet Tubman identified her as “a conductor on the underground railroad,” as though she were merely operating a train.
  2. Digital visitors can see the shawl given by Britain’s Queen Victoria to the famous underground railroad conductor Harriet Tubman, as well as a simple straw hat owned by the civil rights and bus boycott leader Rosa Parks.
  3. I went to England to study politics at Oxford University and spent most of my time working with people who were trying to get soldiers in the underground railroad—deserters—into a safe place in Scandinavia.
  4. But underground classes have Persians getting with the beat.
  5. Atefeh says the participants in the underground classes she attends are mainly young women.
  6. Youssef said the jailings are not only driving the community underground but pushing many to move abroad.
  7. “He literally went underground to hold services,” Moscow-based dissident and journalist Victor Davidoff said in an email.
  8. Unfortunately, the underground tunnels that were used to transport booze and, if necessary, escaping patrons, are off-limits.
  9. All over the world the just claims of organized labor are intermingled with the underground conspiracy of social revolution.
  10. One thing was certain: Grandfather Mole could travel much faster through the water than he could underground.
  11. At six o'clock I felt once more the welcome motion of a Railroad car, and at eight was in Venice.
  12. And when he took an underground stroll he was almost sure to find a few angleworms, which furnished most of his meals.
  13. When a besieged city suspects a mine, do not the inhabitants dig underground, and meet their enemy at his work?