| 单词 | transportation system |
| 释义 | > as lemmastransportation system attributive, mostly in sense 1, as transportation agent, transportation company, transportation money, transportation rate, transportation sentence, transportation system, transportation-wagon, etc. ΚΠ 1573–4 in Acts Privy Council (1894) VIII. 212 To aunswer the conduct, transportacion money and wages acording to her Majesties usuall entertainement. 1819 J. A. Quitman in J. F. H. Claiborne Life J. A. Quitman (1860) I. 36 I went to the agent of a train of transportation-wagons. 1825 in T. L. McKenney Memoirs (1846) I. 299 I was appointed transportation agent for the United States at St. Louis. 1844 R. W. Emerson Young Amer. 17 The Post Office is likely to go into disuse before the private transportation shop. 1866 ‘M. Twain’ Lett. from Hawaii (1967) 274 Her transportation wagons will be the freight cars of the Pacific Railroad. 1879 Constit. Calif. in J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. (1888) II. App. 670 All railroad, canal, and other transportation companies are declared to be common carriers. 1883 G. B. Goode Rev. Fishery Industries U.S. 67 The construction of refrigerating transportation cars. 1891 Athenæum 26 Dec. 862/3 There is not much in it about Siberia,..and the work is, in fact, one on the Russian transportation system. 1897 ‘P. Warung’ Tales Old Regime 148 Her home record was bad, and most likely her transportation-sentence was life. < as lemmas |
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