网站首页  词典首页

请输入您要查询的英文单词：

　

单词 derailment
释义
derailment
noun[CorU]
uk
/ˌdiːˈreɪl.mənt/us
/ˌdiːˈreɪl.mənt/
thefactof atraincoming off therailwaytracks:
There's been a derailment justoutsidethecity, and manypeoplearefeareddead.
Thenumberoftrainderailments hasrisen.
See
derail
picture of derailment
murengstockphoto/iStock/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages
More examples
  • The derailmentoccurredas thetrainmovedthrough acurvedsectionoftrack.
  • Newfearsover Tubesafetyhaveemergedfollowingthe derailment at Camden Town.
  • They had notdeterminedwhatcausedthe derailment.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
On the road: accidents involving vehicles
  • anti-collision
  • bird strike
  • brake
  • car crash
  • crash-landing
  • cropper
  • derail
  • hit and run
  • overshoot
  • prang
  • rear-end
  • road toll
  • RTA
  • rubbernecking
  • run(something)intosomething/someone
  • runsomeone/somethingdown
  • runsomeone/somethingover
  • shunt
  • stack
  • stack up
See more results »
(Definition ofderailmentfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofderailment

derailment
Those same themes were the central questions in a remarkable series of cases arising out of a single trainderailmentin 1852.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Disorganization, or thought disorder, is characterized byderailment, illogicality, and inappropriate affect.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Aderailmentof the system as a whole is not an issue that is in the mental setup of most of today's macroeconomists.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The hazard in the two cases is for the purposes of analysis identical: loss of lives throughderailmentof a train.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Because personality psychopathology usually begins in adolescence or early adulthood, the potential for derailments in occupational trajectories and in the development of mature interpersonal relationships is great.
From theCambridge English Corpus
To expose the economic programme to the risk of dilution andderailmentwas a high cost for a government facing a tremendous economic crisis and problems of political credibility.#!
From theCambridge English Corpus
Similarly, failure of self-monitoring of speech could lead to a failure to edit out material that is irrelevant to the topic at hand, leading toderailmentand tangentiality.
From theCambridge English Corpus
By their nature, they require major institutional and legal changes and involve a much broader range of actors, which make them more vulnerable to vetoes, dilutions, delays and derailments.
From theCambridge English Corpus
They include all derailments and most collisions but exclude minor incidents: details of the latter are given in the annual reports.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
The golden economic legacy has turned into a boom-bust economicderailment.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Emergency services were called within 10 minutes of thederailmentand arrived on the scene without delay.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Ten of the freight train derailments occurred on lines not normally used by passenger trains.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
The provisional figure for freight train derailments in 1968 is 336.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Firm figures for 1968 are not yet available, but there were 284 freight train derailments in 1967.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Many derailments have been due to outdated rolling stock rather than the condition of the rail.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/derailment##
随便看

　

英汉词典包含213609条英汉翻译词条，涵盖了常用英语单词及词组短语的翻译及用法，是英语学习的必备工具。

　

Copyright © 1999-2024 qbania.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间：2024/12/28 1:55:57