| 释义 |
derailment|dɪˈreɪlmənt|
[ad. mod.F. déraillement (cited by Bescherelle 1845, from F. Tourneaux 1841), f. dérailler: see derail v. Introduced from French c 1850: at first chiefly used in U.S.]
Said of a railway train, etc.: The fact of leaving or being thrown off the rails.
1850Lardner Railway Economy 326 In most cases of derailment*, it is the engine which escapes from the rails. [Foot-note*, I have adopted this word from the French: it expresses an effect..for which we have not yet had any term in our railway nomenclature. By déraillement is meant the escape of the wheels of the engine or carriage from the rails.] 1864Webster, Derailment, the state of being off the rails of a railway, as a locomotive. Lardner. 1880Times 20 Jan. (Swiss Railways), The number of accidents..was 177, of which 55 are classed as derailments, 55 as collisions. 1880St. James's Gaz. 17 Aug. 12, I do not now refer to the influence of speed in producing a derailment. |