A rail is a horizontal bar attached to posts or around the edge of something as a fence or support.
双语例句
例:
They had to walk across an emergency footbridge, holding onto a rope that served as a rail.
他们不得不抓着一根绳子当扶栏,走过一架应急人行桥。
2.?[C 可数名词] (挂物用的)横杆
A rail is a horizontal bar that you hang things on.
双语例句
例:
This pair of curtains will fit a rail up to 7 ft 6 in wide.
这副窗帘适合安装在宽度为7英尺6英寸的横杆上。
3.?[C 可数名词] 铁轨
Rails are the steel bars which trains run on.
近义词
track
双语例句
例:
The train left the rails but somehow forced its way back onto the line.
火车偏离了铁轨,但又设法回到了原来的轨道上。
4.?[U 不可数名词] 乘火车 , 用火车(运送)
If you travel or send something by rail, you travel or send it on a train.
双语例句
例:
The president travelled by rail to his home town.
总统乘火车回到了家乡。
PHRASE. 习语
back on the rails
1.?东山再起
If something is back on the rails, it is beginning to be successful again after a period when it almost failed.
go off the rails
1.?行为出轨
If someone goes off the rails, they start to behave in a way that other people think is unacceptable or very strange, for example they start taking drugs or breaking the law.
双语例句
例:
They've got to do something about these children because clearly they've gone off the rails.