| 释义 |
ˈwest-bound, a.
[west adv.]
Travelling to the west or in a westerly direction; connected with travel in this direction.
Orig. U.S. of railway-trains. In more general use from c 1900, freq. of Transatlantic steamers.
1881Chicago Times 12 Mar., The west-bound express was laid up all night at Kearney. 1889Pall Mall Gaz. 3 Sept. 2/3 He will at once give you a west-bound ticket to Chicago. 1891C. Roberts Adrift Amer. 67, I watched my chance..and got on a west-bound freight train. 1902Westm. Gaz. 22 Oct. 1/3 The West-bound traveller..would choose his 'bus..along the Embankment.
Add:b. ellipt. as n., a west-bound train. Chiefly N. Amer.
1897Kipling Day's Work (1898) 230 When the West-bound's ditched, and the tool-car's hitched, And it's 'way for the Breakdown Gang. 1909R. A. Wason Happy Hawkins 222 This time the west-bound had to take a sidin' and wait twenty minutes for the east-bound. 1948Popular Western June 17/2 He'll probably leave the train and flag the next westbound back to Caprock. |