railroad是什么意思？

railroad

英[ˈreɪlrəʊd] 美[ˈreɪlroʊd]

• n. 铁路，铁道，铁路公司，铁路部门；
• v. 迫使…仓促行事，强迫…做，轻率判处；

过去式：railroaded;

过去分词：railroaded;

现在分词：railroading;

第三人称单数：railroads;

例句

• My brother is working on the railroad. 我兄弟在铁路系统工作。
• The railroad slopes up slightly at this point. 铁路从这儿开始微微向上倾斜。
• an elevated railroad 高架铁路
• The engineers carried the railroad across the desert. 工程师们将这条铁路延伸，使之越过沙漠。
• The steamboat and the railroad cut deep into the wilderness. 铁路轮船深入不毛之地.
• Take bus no .4 from the World Trade Center to the railroad station. 从世贸中心搭乘4路公共汽车到火车站.
• The novel's heroine, a toothsome superwoman who runs a railroad. 那小说中之女主角, 一位极为美丽而非凡的女性,经营着一条铁路.
• Under Scott, Carnegie learned all about the railroad industry and later became a superintendent himself. 为史考特工作时, 卡内基学到了所有与铁路工业有关的知识并于稍后成为督查.
• Railroad industry is considered as typical natural monopoly trade. 铁路行业被认为是典型的自然垄断行业.
• Guns fired witheringly at the railroad cars. 枪一起对着列车车厢猛烈地、摧毁性地扫射.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  铁路；铁道
  A railroad is a route between two places along which trains travel on steel rails.
  例句
  ...railroad tracks that led to nowhere... 向远方延伸的铁轨 The railroad finally reached Santa Barbara in 1877. 铁路终于在1877年修到了圣巴巴拉。
• N-COUNT
  铁路公司；铁路部门
  A railroad is a company or organization that operates railway routes.
  例句
  ...The Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. 芝加哥和西北铁路公司
• VERB
  强迫，迫使（某人仓促行事）
  If you railroad someone into doing something, you make them do it although they do not really want to, by hurrying them and putting pressure on them.
  例句
  He more or less railroaded the rest of Europe into recognising the new 'independent' states... 他几乎是迫使着其他欧洲国家承认了那些新兴的“独立”国家。 He railroaded the reforms through. 他强制性地推行了改革。

英汉词典释义

• n.
  铁路, 铁道
  The railroad slopes up slightly at this point. 铁路从这儿开始微微向上倾斜。
  铁路系统
  My brother is working on the railroad. 我兄弟在铁路系统工作。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a railway system
  2. a line of track providing a runway for wheels;
  "he walked along the railroad track"
• Verb
  1. compel by coercion, threats, or crude means;
  "They sandbagged him to make dinner for everyone"
  2. supply with railroad lines;
  "railroad the West"
  3. transport by railroad