| 单词 | third rail |
| 释义 | third rail (once / 72959 pages) n WORD FAMILY third rail USAGE EXAMPLESThe Boston Globe called “Beginners” “the passive work of a man nervous to touch the third rail of his parents’ discontent.” The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) Those include federal entitlement programs such as Medicare, long considered a “third rail” of American politics, that Trump himself has shied away from touching. Washington Post(Nov 21, 2016) That’s not exactly our habit, and finance might be a particular theatrical third rail. Washington Post(Nov 18, 2016) n a rail through which electric current is supplied to an electric locomotive Hyper rail, rails, runway, track a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll |
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