tram
发音
How to pronounce tram in British English:
英 [træm]
How to pronounce tram in American English:
美 [træm]
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- Noun:
- a conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers
- a four-wheeled wagon that runs on tracks in a mine
- a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity
单词词源
- tram
- tram: [16] Tram was borrowed from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch trame ‘balk of timber, beam’, a word of unknown origin. It was originally used in English for the ‘shafts’ of a cart, and then for the cart itself. The track on which such carts ran in mines and similar places came to be known as tramlines, and this term was adopted in the 19th century for a track used for passenger road vehicles. These in turn were called tramcars, or trams for short.
- tram (n.)
- c. 1500, "beam or shaft of a barrow or sledge," also "a barrow or truck body" (1510s), Scottish, originally in reference to the iron trucks used in coal mines, probably from Middle Flemish tram "beam, handle of a barrow, bar, rung," a North Sea Germanic word of unknown origin. The sense of "track for a barrow, tramway" is first recorded 1826; that of "streetcar" is first recorded 1879, short for tram-car "car used on a tramway" (1873).
双语例句
- 1. A tram requires a dedicated track .
- 2. And I can get across town faster than a taxi or tram .
- 3. Bucharest , romania : people stand in a crowded tram during a strike by subway workers
- 4. Common in europe , tram and light rail systems are one of the most efficient ways for residents to move about town .
- 5. Often the nearest he got was in the tram on the way to work , pressing himself against strap-hanging secretaries .