| 单词 | ambulance siren |
| 释义 | > as lemmasambulance siren C1. General use as a modifier, chiefly in sense 2, as ambulance cart, ambulance siren, ambulance stretcher, etc.The earliest examples probably relate to sense 1. ΚΠ 1854 Westmorland Gaz. & Kendal Advertiser 21 Jan. 2/1 At a great military hospital in Paris the attendants are daily exercised..in the ambulance duties..that would be required of them in action. 1860 R. Delafield Rep. Art of War in Europe 68 The ambulance stretcher is composed of..two wooden frames, the lower one with handles, carrying an upper one. 1879 Citizen (Gloucester) 9 Oct. 4 A young man..was crushed between the buffers of two trucks. An ambulance cart was immediately procured. 1918 M. McArthur Let. 26 May in L. Housman War Lett. Fallen Englishmen (2002) 184 They spoke..of the Ambulance Girls..out in the thick of it, picking up wounded. 1976 North Hills (Pa.) News-Record 3 Mar. 15/1 During 1975, the company answered 106 alarms and 418 ambulance calls. 2010 New Yorker 2 Aug. 18/3 One of the loudest and busiest intersections in the Bronx, where..trains shriek on elevated tracks overhead..and ambulance sirens..Doppler by. < as lemmas |
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