单词 | pre-railway |
释义 | > as lemmaspre-railway pre-railway adj. Brit. /(ˌ)priːˈreɪlweɪ/ , U.S. /ˌpriˈreɪlˌweɪ/ ΚΠ 1866 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 29 564 Had the railway traffic of 1865 been conveyed by canal and road at the pre-railway rates, it would have cost three times as much. 1997 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 57 146 The development of reliable and prompt transport modes in the prerailway era was a necessary condition for the success of the Industrial Revolution. < as lemmas |
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