英语词汇“broad gauge”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

broad gauge

释义

broad gauge
The wider distance at which the rails are laid on some railways, involving a corresponding width of carriage. See gauge. Often attrib. (also fig.). Hence ˈbroad-gauged a.
(The broad gauge of the Great Western Railway, in England, is 7 feet, as against the ordinary gauge of 4 ft. 8½ in.)
1844[see narrow gauge].1858Brannan in F. J. Meine Tall Tales of S.W. (1930) 255 The Univarsalists..get on the broad gage and goes the hull hog-ah!1864Times 24 Dec., A through broad-gauge train was due.1865Ibid. 25 Jan., If the broad gauge may be unnecessarily wide the narrow gauge is too narrow.1868M. Pattison Academ. Org. iv. 102 We wish to maintain one broad-gauge line of refining education.1881Chicago Times 4 June, Everything broad-gauged and in liberal proportions.

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