| 单词 | train wreck |
| 释义 | > as lemmastrain wreck train wreck n. (a) an event in which a train is wrecked; an act of wrecking a train; (b) a wrecked train; also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > [noun] > accident on railway run-off1847 runaway train1848 derailment1850 train wreck1876 derailing1884 runaway1886 train crash1904 society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > train train1814 railway train1834 railroad train1836 train1841 rail train1843 train wreck1876 train set1959 1876 Year Bk. & Almanac Canada 86/1 Train wreck on Can. S. Railway. 1889 Ann. Rep. Chief of Engineers, United States Army III. 1586 Communication was opened with the officers of the St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas Railroad to ascertain if they proposed to remove the train wreck at the Garland Bridge. 1897 Proc. Trustees Sanitary District of Chicago 3749/1 Attempted train wreck..6. 1949 S. Longstreet High Button Shoes ii. iii. 49 [Drinks.] This and a train wreck killed Grandma. 1980 Maledicta Summer 55 Trainwreck, a very sick patient who has several medical problems simultaneously and is usually comatose. 1993 Albuquerque (New Mexico) Jrnl. 31 Mar. d4/3 Babbitt wants to begin the cooperative development of multispecies ecosystem-protection plans that would avoid what he calls ‘national train wreck’ such as the northern spotted owl controversy. 2007 R. Sharenow My Mother the Cheerleader (2009) xxiii. 205 Something compelled me to listen, like when people rush over to see a house burn down or watch bloody victims pulled from a train wreck. < as lemmas |
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