| 单词 | coal train |
| 释义 | > as lemmascoal train coal train n. a train used to transport coal; spec. (a) a freight train carrying coal; (b) a series of wagons carrying ore or coal on a railway in a mine; cf. train n.2 19 (now rare). ΚΠ 1828 Reg. Pennsylvania 2 Aug. 46/2 The driver has let the coal train get a mile ahead—for that moves only about five miles an hour, though it might go 10 or 15, or even more. 1876 Leeds Mercury 25 Mar. 10/1 [The failure of the signals] prevented the coal train, running late, from being stopped. 1909 Daily Chron. 20 Aug. 1/1 The canister..was left in a coal train in the mine. 1933 Cumberland (Maryland) Evening Times 4 Jan. 2/8 He had been assigned to guard a stalled coal train and had gone there on complaints that coal was being tossed from the cars. 2013 Southern Star (Brisbane) (Nexis) 23 Jan. 4 The number of coal trains passing through dozens of suburbs in Brisbane, Ipswich and Toowoomba could double under the Port of Brisbane's 20-year plan to expand coal exports from Fisherman's Island. < as lemmas |
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