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railroad

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Related topics: Trains & railways
rail·road1 /ˈreɪlrəʊd $ -roʊd/ ●●○ noun [countableC] American EnglishAmE  
track.jpg TTTa railway or the railway 铁路；铁路系统
 The supplies were sent on the railroad.
补给经由铁路运送。
 a railroad station
火车站
→5 see picture at 见图 rail1
Examples from the Corpus
railroad• I crossed a railroad overpass and reached a bunch of shacks where two highways forked off, both for Denver.• History teaches that the lack of a railroad stop condemned many towns to a lingering death a hundred years ago.• By 1901, smelting operations were moved to Douglas, only 25 miles to the east, when a railroad was built.• a railroad track• Trains passing through the Anapra gap are now monitored by private security and railroad police.• the Southern Pacific railroad• War-time controls were removed; railroads and shipping returned to private corporations.• The last boxcar was the railroad guards' heaven on wheels.• The railroad took its sweet time arriving.• Even though shelters were emerging, it was like the underground railroad.
railroad2 verb [transitiveT]  
PERSUADEto force or persuade someone to do something without giving them enough time to think about it 迫使[劝服]〔某人〕仓促行事
railroad somebody into doing something
 The workers were railroaded into signing the agreement.
工人们被迫匆匆签下这个协议。
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railroad• The company that gets Conrail would dominate eastern railroading.• The Sunset Limited is an old name in railroading.• He was not about to be railroaded by some impatient young woman.• He would never forget the day Wilkes shot her boyfriend, a railroading man, wounding him only superficially.• I knew that they was going to railroad me.• This complex proposal should not be railroaded through Congress.
railroad somebody into doing something• Claudia was railroaded into selling her late husband's land.
From Longman Business Dictionary
railroadrail·road1 /ˈreɪlrəʊd-roʊd/ noun [countableC] American EnglishAmE
1TRANSPORTa railway
a railroad company
2the railroad all the work, equipment etc connected with a train system
He had taken a job as a ticket agent on the railroad.
railroadrailroad2 verb [transitiveT]
to force or persuade someone to do something without giving them enough time to think about it
railroad somebody into doing something
The workers were railroaded into signing the agreement.
rail·road1 nounrailroad2 verb
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