释义
n.
Brit. a passenger vehicle powered by electricity conveyed by overhead cables, and running on rails laid in a public road
〈英〉 有轨电车。
historical a low four-wheeled cart or barrow used in coal mines
〈史〉 (煤矿用的)煤车,矿车。
类似拼写词
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tramn.有轨电车;煤车;矿车
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teamn.队;组;班;联畜;一组牲口
词源
"early 16th cent. (denoting a shaft of a barrow; also in sense 2): from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch trame ‘beam, barrow shaft'. In the early 19th cent. the word denoted the parallel wheel tracks used in a mine, on which the public tramway was modelled; hence sense 1 (late 19th cent.)."