rail
n. 圍欄; 軌道,鋼軌; 扶手; [動]秧雞
vi. 責備; 抱怨; 責罵
vt. 將…圍起來; 鋪鐵軌; 坐火車旅行; 用圍欄圍
A rail is a horizontal bar attached to posts or fixed round the edge of something as a fence or support.
They had to walk across an emergency footbridge, holding onto a rope that served as a rail...
他們必須握著一條繩索充當扶手穿過一條緊急人行天橋。
She gripped the hand rail in the lift.
她緊緊抓著電梯裡的扶手。
A rail is a horizontal bar that you hang things on.
...frocks hanging from a rail...
掛在橫杆上的連衣裙
This pair of curtains will fit a rail up to 7ft 6in wide.
這副窗簾需要用7.5英尺寬的橫杆掛起。
Rails are the steel bars which trains run on.
The train left the rails but somehow forced its way back onto the line.
火車脫軌了,但總算設法回到了原來的軌道上。
If you travel or send something by rail, you travel or send it on a train.
The president traveled by rail to his home town.
總統坐火車回到了他的家鄉。
...the electric rail link between Manchester and Sheffield.
曼徹斯特和謝菲爾德之間的電氣化鐵路線
If you rail against something, you criticize it loudly and angrily.
He railed against hypocrisy and greed...
他痛斥偽善和貪婪的行為。
I'd cursed him and railed at him.
我曾詛咒並且大聲責罵過他。
If something is back on the rails, it is beginning to be successful again after a period when it almost failed.
They are keen to get the negotiating process back on the rails...
他們熱切希望使談判重新步入正軌。
Her career is back on the rails.
她的事業得以重振。
If someone goes off the rails, they start to behave in a way that other people think is unacceptable or very strange, for example they start taking drugs or breaking the law.
They've got to do something about these children because clearly they've gone off the rails.
他們必須得管管這些孩子了,因為他們實在太不像話了。
1. a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports
2. short for railway;
3. a bar or bars of rolled steel making a track along which vehicles can roll
4. a horizontal bar (usually of wood)
5. any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud
1. complain bitterly
2. enclose with rails;
3. provide with rails;
4. separate with a railing;
5. convey (goods etc.) by rails;
6. travel by rail or train;
7. lay with rails;
8. fish with a hand-line over the rails of a boat;
9. spread negative information about;
10. criticize severely;
go off the rails
(非正式)行為不軌,越軌;出毛病;神經錯亂
on the rails
(非正式)在軌道上;順利,順遂,正常
(賽馬,騎師)近內欄,靠內欄
This formerly inaccessible place can now be reached by road and rail.
這裡過去是窮鄉僻壤,現在鐵路公路都暢通了.
The child hung onto the rail like grim death.
那孩子緊抓住欄杆不放手.
The rail strike is a problem for all commuters.
鐵路員工罷工對所有通勤者來說都是一個問題.
The goods have been consigned by rail.
貨物已交鐵路託運.
Our plans were thrown into disarray by the rail strike.
鐵路罷工打亂了我們的計劃.