| 单词 | trans-mongolian | 
| 释义 | > as lemmastrans-Mongolian  8.   in geographical adjectives, formed as in sense  7, with the sense ‘passing across, crossing’, as in  trans-African,  trans-Algerian,  trans-American,  trans-Andean (-ian, -ine),  trans-Antarctic,  trans-Arabian,  trans-Asiatic,  trans-Australian,  trans-Balkan,  trans-Canada,  trans-Manchurian,  trans-Mersey,  trans-Mongolian,  trans-Pyrenean,  trans-Saharan,  trans-Siberian,  trans-Sierran,  trans-Tasman, etc. Many of these occur also in sense  7. ΚΠ 1846    R. Ford Gatherings from Spain iv. 31  				Newfangled transpyrenean reforms, innovations, and botherations. 1880    Nature 4 Mar. 424/2  				The future Transalgerian Railway Company. 1884    Notes on Bks. (Longman's)  31 May 247  				The Transandine exploring and surveying expedition of 1871–2. 1886    Liverpool Courier 16 Jan.  				Assisting in opening the trans-Mersey Railway. 1888    Times 20 Sept. 3/6  				Denham, Clapperton, Barth, and other trans-Saharan travellers. 1898    Chambers's Jrnl. 1 543/2  				8000 feet above sea-level, the highest point to which the Trans-Andean railway had been carried. 1901    Daily Chron. 13 Nov. 3/3  				The reported adoption..of the trans-American route for the conveyance of the Australian mails. 1903    Daily Chron. 17 Mar. 6/6  				The project of a Trans-Pyrenean railway is thoroughly practicable. 1907    Westm. Gaz. 26 Oct. 16/3  				This trans-African voyage of Mr. Savage Landor. 1908    Busy Man's Mag. Apr. 95  				The Proposed Route of the Trans-Canada Rail~way. 1908    Edinb. Rev. July 146  				The trans-Niger railway, destined to..open up to commerce a magnificent agricultural region. 1916    R. K. Wood Tourist's N.W. 315  				A campaign for the improvement and construction of roads which..shall in combination form a trans-Canada motor route. 1933    Geogr. Jrnl. 82 470  				Mr. Lincoln Ellsworth..will then make the Transantarctic flight, which is the sole object of the expedition. 1935    E. B. Buckbee Saga Old Tuolumne 385  				The road survived until the State of California came to look with favour upon its possibilities as a tran-Sierran [sic] road. 1938    Times 17 Feb. 13/4  				The flying-boat Centaurus showed her unsuitability for trans-Tasman traffic. 1950    Pacific Discovery Mar.–Apr. 4/1  				Did you know that a trans-Sierran highway is now being built in Madera County? 1963    P. Drackett Motor Rallying iv. 62  				The Trans-Canada and Canadian Winter Rallies have not yet reached the lofty eminence of the Safari. 1965    E. McCourt Road across Canada 199  				The Trans-Canada Highway is an engineering, communications, and scenic marvel. 1966    N. Marsh Black Beech & Honeydew viii. 175  				In..1928 the trans-Tasman steamer sailed..into Cook Strait. 1978    Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Aug. 957/4  				Shackleton's unsuccessful transantarctic expedition. 1978    J. Updike Coup 		(1979)	 i. 4  				The capital is Istiqlal, renamed in 1960, upon independence, and on prior maps called Cailliéville, in honor of the trans-Saharan traveller of 1828. < as lemmas | 
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