| 单词 | breakdown train |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbreakdown train b. esp. A fracture or dislocation of machinery resulting in a stoppage. Hence attributive, as in breakdown gang, breakdown train. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > [noun] > failure or going wrong > of equipment or machinery failure1793 breakdown1838 breaking1842 1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 296/1 Railway Casualties—obstructions from cattle wagons and breaks down. 1852 J. M. Ludlow Master Engineers 105 Double pay for over-time caused by break-down or accident. 1863 Times 6 Apr. Break-down gangs from Peterborough and Grantham. 1866 Standard 15 Sept. 4/5 A mine where there had been a breakdown. 1893 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. I. Breakdown van (Gt. Brit.), a wrecking-car. 1933 in Amer. Speech (1942) 17 4/2 Morton, my car's outside Savarin's... Get your breakdown lorry round for it. 1953 A. Smith Blind White Fish in Persia i. 22 One of its hands..prepared the breakdown lorry. < as lemmas |
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