milk train

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A slow passenger train leaving in the early hours of the morning. UK,colloquial
    — But I also felt again the remembered romantic warmth of nodding off on the milk-train home in the early hours, with Liz by my side.
  2. A goods train that carried milk, usually in tank wagons.
    — On the Western Region, milk trains work up to London from Penzance, Wellington (Som.), Weymouth, Whitland, Carmarthen and Wootton Bassett, each train making several intermediate stops to attach further milk tanks, and in some cases to shed them.

词形变化

milk trains plural

词源

Familiarised from the early morning goods trains used to transport milk on the British railway system.
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