| 单词 | sleeping-car |
| 释义 | > as lemmassleeping-car sleeping-car n. ΚΠ 1839 Mechanics' Mag. 5 Jan. 240 The introduction of the newly-invented sleeping cars on our railroads. 1872 W. F. Butler Great Lone Land iv. 57 One takes a Pullman..as one takes a Hansom, Pullman and sleeping-car have become synonymous terms. 1872 Trans. Dept. Agric. Illinois 23 That the sleeping car for use of the Board be brought on the Grounds. 1903 Mrs. H. Ward Lady Rose's Daughter xviii. 313 I will go and get a sleeping car for you to Calais. 1904 Indian Laws & Treaties III. 36 For traveling expenses..exclusive of transportation and sleeping-car fare. 1954 T. S. Eliot Confidential Clerk i. 32 I shall go and rest now. In a sleeping-car it is quite impossible To get one's quiet hour. 1978 J. Simmons Railway in Eng. & Wales 1830–1914 I. viii. 195 The first sleeping cars in Britain appeared in 1873, on trains running between London and Glasgow. < as lemmas |
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