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单词 train wreck
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Definition of train wreck in English:

train wreck

noun
  • 1A collision or other accident involving a train.

    a relative was killed in the Humber river train wreck
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The crash injured 48 people, four seriously, in the latest in a series of commuter train wrecks in recent months.
    • Authorities say excessive speed caused a train wreck that killed 36 people, and injured 81 others.
    • He crashed head-on into a freight train and likely caused the nation's deadliest commuter train wreck in nearly four decades.
    • If this number of casualties had occurred in a train wreck or airline disaster, public inquiries would have been established, and millions of pounds invested in safety improvements as a result.
    • The paper's full of stories about plane crashes and train wrecks.
    • I heard about the commuter train wreck in Glendale, California.
    • The actor plays a Philadelphia security guard who survives a train wreck that kills 131 others, miraculously emerging without a scratch.
    • A train wreck disrupted Internet connections and caused a one-day delay in pre-trial hearings for five prisoners.
    • Investigators are still searching through the debris of the deadly train wreck.
    • With recent events ranging from train wrecks to hurricanes, floods, and mudslides, the need for someone to coordinate efforts between emergency responders and other agencies is becoming all too clear.
    1. 1.1North American informal A chaotic or disastrous situation that holds a ghoulish fascination for observers.
      his train wreck of a private life guaranteed front-page treatment
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It's not a complete and utter train wreck by any stretch of the imagination.
      • The Great Depression bequeathed us screwball comedy, a genre beyond the stars ' grasp in this train wreck of a revival.
      • The Chicago Bulls, despite all their money and semi-recent championships, are a train wreck.
      • What we're witnessing here in what was supposed to have been a championship season for Democrats is a potential train wreck.
      • Now she is considered a visual joke, a train wreck.
      • There's a fiscal train wreck about 15 years from now.
      • Of course, all this has been a train wreck waiting to happen for quite some time now.
      • The recent decades of Brando's film career have consisted of a series of train wrecks.
      • This was a bad result for Labor, but it was not a train wreck.
      • You end up with a train wreck of an ad, which people assume is going to lead them to a similarly complicated site.
      • He mulled over the passage and then thought about the train wreck that was his life.
      • The last three weeks have been a drawn-out train wreck!
      • I wonder if it's a train wreck or a really good show.
      • On paper, Northern Ballet Theatre's new adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy reads like a potential train wreck.
      • The long run of successes had quickly ended in a train wreck.
      • New Zealanders must be kept in paid work if employment here is not to emulate the train wreck already apparent in Britain and the United States, and threatening Australia.
      • We are seeing the future of the National Party get itself out of the way of the train wreck that is about to come.
      • Ten days of work and the display looks like a train wreck.
      • But it may be too late, because conservatives don't want to be part of the looming train wreck.
      • I could see that train wreck coming from miles away.
 
 

Definition of train wreck in US English:

train wreck

noun
  • 1A collision or other accident involving a train.

    a relative was killed in the Humber river train wreck
    Example sentencesExamples
    • With recent events ranging from train wrecks to hurricanes, floods, and mudslides, the need for someone to coordinate efforts between emergency responders and other agencies is becoming all too clear.
    • The crash injured 48 people, four seriously, in the latest in a series of commuter train wrecks in recent months.
    • Investigators are still searching through the debris of the deadly train wreck.
    • The actor plays a Philadelphia security guard who survives a train wreck that kills 131 others, miraculously emerging without a scratch.
    • Authorities say excessive speed caused a train wreck that killed 36 people, and injured 81 others.
    • If this number of casualties had occurred in a train wreck or airline disaster, public inquiries would have been established, and millions of pounds invested in safety improvements as a result.
    • The paper's full of stories about plane crashes and train wrecks.
    • I heard about the commuter train wreck in Glendale, California.
    • A train wreck disrupted Internet connections and caused a one-day delay in pre-trial hearings for five prisoners.
    • He crashed head-on into a freight train and likely caused the nation's deadliest commuter train wreck in nearly four decades.
    1. 1.1North American informal A chaotic or disastrous situation that holds a peculiar fascination for observers.
      his train wreck of a private life guaranteed front-page treatment
      Example sentencesExamples
      • You end up with a train wreck of an ad, which people assume is going to lead them to a similarly complicated site.
      • On paper, Northern Ballet Theatre's new adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy reads like a potential train wreck.
      • It's not a complete and utter train wreck by any stretch of the imagination.
      • Now she is considered a visual joke, a train wreck.
      • New Zealanders must be kept in paid work if employment here is not to emulate the train wreck already apparent in Britain and the United States, and threatening Australia.
      • The long run of successes had quickly ended in a train wreck.
      • There's a fiscal train wreck about 15 years from now.
      • Of course, all this has been a train wreck waiting to happen for quite some time now.
      • Ten days of work and the display looks like a train wreck.
      • But it may be too late, because conservatives don't want to be part of the looming train wreck.
      • The Great Depression bequeathed us screwball comedy, a genre beyond the stars ' grasp in this train wreck of a revival.
      • What we're witnessing here in what was supposed to have been a championship season for Democrats is a potential train wreck.
      • I wonder if it's a train wreck or a really good show.
      • We are seeing the future of the National Party get itself out of the way of the train wreck that is about to come.
      • He mulled over the passage and then thought about the train wreck that was his life.
      • The Chicago Bulls, despite all their money and semi-recent championships, are a train wreck.
      • The recent decades of Brando's film career have consisted of a series of train wrecks.
      • This was a bad result for Labor, but it was not a train wreck.
      • The last three weeks have been a drawn-out train wreck!
      • I could see that train wreck coming from miles away.
 
 
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