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单词 channel tunnel
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Channel Tunnel
Channel Tunnel n. (also with lower-case initial in the second element or in both elements) a (proposed) tunnel under the English Channel linking the coasts of England and France; also figurative.The tunnel, 50.5 km (31.4 miles) in length, was opened on 6 May 1994, and is used by passenger and freight rail services; cf. Eurostar n., Le Shuttle n., Chunnel n.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > underground passage or tunnel > under the English Channel
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Chunnel1907
1869 Times 25 June 5/5 The Channel Tunnel... Project for a submarine tunnel between Dover and a point near Cape Blanc-nez, on the French coast.
1889 G. M. Hopkins Let. 29 Apr. (1935) 304 Rot about babies, a blethery bathos into which Hugo and he [sc. Swinburne] from opposite coasts have long driven Channel-tunnels.
1957 Encycl. Brit. V. 232/2 The Channel tunnel scheme was shelved again [in 1924] but the idea did not die.
1997 Transportation Statistics Ann. Rep. 1997 (U.S. Dept. of Transportation) x. 242 In 1994, France and the United Kingdom initiated London to Paris HSR service using the privately constructed and operated channel tunnel, or chunnel.
2010 Grocer Feb. 11/4 Fresh produce from Spain is being rail-freighted from Valencia to the UK using the Channel Tunnel.
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