| 单词 | bar car |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbar car bar car n. now chiefly U.S. a railway carriage containing a bar serving (esp. alcoholic) drinks and light meals; cf. buffet-car n. at buffet n.3 3b, restaurant car n. at restaurant n. Compounds 2.In quot. 1915: a canteen wagon for soldiers. ΚΠ 1915 Aeroplane 10 Mar. 222/1 The bar-cars are to provide refreshments to the troops abroad. 1933 Times 2 Oct. 13/7 On the Brussels-Paris line ‘bar cars’ are to be run in which a meal may be had for 15f., which is less than the normal restaurant bar charge. 1966 G. Parks Choice of Weapons xviii. 192 When the Chicago Northwestern Railway hired me on a bar car as a porter, I decided then and there that I was an assistant bartender. 2003 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 5 Oct. v. 12/3 Back on the train, time passed easily, with the hours spent drinking beer in the bar car and snoozing with the rocking ride. < as lemmas |
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