switchman

基本解释

• n. 轉轍員；扳道工

同根派生

英汉例句

雙語例句

• A switchman sat in a small shack on one side of the river where he operated the controls to turn the bridge and lock it into place as the train crossed.
  琯理員坐的地方是在橋一邊的小屋，他的責任是在火車未到河邊之前把橋放下，竝且將它鎖定。
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• "No one is ever satisfied where he is, " said the switchman.
  “人們是從來也不會滿意自己所在的地方的。” 扳道工說。
• "I sort out travelers, in bundles of a thousand, " said the switchman. "I send off the trains that carry them; now to the right, now to the left.
  扳道工說，“我打發這些運載旅客的列車，一會兒發往右方，一會兒發往左方。”
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權威例句

• They would be higher people, although he himself—their grandfather—was a nobody, just a switchman on a section of double track in a forest.
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• The switchman lifted his head from the rail, blew his nose, brushed the dirt off his clothes, and adopted a serious, dignified expression.
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• The switchman tried to explain to his wife that a wicked woman was still a woman—and therefore not so very different from a wife.
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词组短语

短語

• SWITCHMAN N 扳道工
• The Switchman Said 扳道工說
• switchman -switchmen 轉轍員

英英字典

柯林斯英英字典

• a person who operates railway points (Also called (in Britain and certain other countries) pointsman)

专业释义

交通運輸工程

• 扳道員
• 道岔工
• 扳道工

地球科學

• 轉轍工