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单词 engine driver
释义
engine driver
noun[C]
UK
uk
/ˈen.dʒɪn ˌdraɪ.vər/us
/ˈen.dʒɪn ˌdraɪ.vɚ/
(USusuallyengineer)
atraindriver
火车司机，机车司机
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Railway workers
  • conductor
  • engineer
  • guard
  • motorman
  • porter
  • signalman
  • stationmaster
  • stoker
(Definition ofengine driverfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
Examples from literature
  • But, tell me, were there no women in your day who were machinists, farmers, engineers, carpenters, iron workers, builders, engine drivers, or members of the other great crafts?
  • She was talking in a low voice to the engine driver and stoker of our train.
  • The engine driver stands on the right-hand side, in the middle of the motor, where he has command of all the appliances for regulating the movements of the engine as well as of the brake.
  • The engineer had become tired of the boastful talk he heard from the other engine drivers at his boarding-house.
  • They met about half-way, and the engine driver, whose career had not taught him a proper reverence for red tabs, blew his whistle and carried on.

Examplesofengine driver

engine driver
It is unimportant how many witnesses may swear, that anenginedriver, of competent skill, can always regulate the exact amount of steam to let on.
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It is brought home to them, too, for example, in the case of theenginedriver.
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That is all that anenginedriverreceives, very often after 40 years on the railways.
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I do not consider that anenginedriveror a railway porter is engaged on the same labour as a dock labourer or a stevedore.
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The facts about theenginedriverare not yet sufficiently established for me to take any action on this matter.
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I do not find it essential to my happiness that every girl should become anenginedriver.
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That is not my own opinion, but that of a very experiencedenginedriverwho drives these trains.
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What a lot of nonsense that is going to be in relation to anenginedriver.
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I was hoping that theenginedriverwould answer my question.
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What should be the degree of differential, and what are the relative skills of theenginedriver, the signalman, the fireman and so on?
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We have comparisons there, too, in what a weekly ticket costs in terms of hours to be worked by anenginedriver.
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It was all spoken from the point of view of anenginedriverwho rather glorifies in being a fast motorist.
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He is also known to some of us possibly as anenginedriver.
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What is going to happen to theenginedriver?
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What would we say if we saw anenginedrivercoming out of a canteen after having taken alcohol before he went on his locomotive?
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