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火车;列车
A train is a number of carriages, cars, or trucks which are all connected together and which are pulled by an engine along a railway. Trains carry people and goods from one place to another.
例句
The train pulled into a station...
列车驶入了一个车站。
We can catch the early morning train...
我们能赶上凌晨的火车。
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(缓慢行进中的)行列，队列
A train of vehicles, people, or animals is a long line of them travelling slowly in the same direction.
例句
In the old days this used to be done with a baggage train of camels.
在过去，这往往由一队驮载行李的骆驼完成。
...a long train of oil tankers.
一长队油轮
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(想法、事件等的)(一)连串，(一)系列
A train of thought or a train of events is a connected sequence, in which each thought or event seems to occur naturally or logically as a result of the previous one.
例句
He lost his train of thought for a moment, then recovered it...
他一时思维短路，然后又重新想了起来。
Giles set in motion a train of events which would culminate in tragedy.
贾尔斯触发了随后的一系列事件，这些事件最终将以悲剧收场。
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裙裾;拖裾
The train of a woman's formal dress or wedding dress is the long part at the back of it which flows along the floor behind her.
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PHRASE
在进行中
If a process or event is in train or has been set in train, it is happening or starting to happen.
例句
In a moment the ceremony was in train…
仪式马上就要开始了。
He praised the economic reforms set in train by the government.
他称赞政府启动的经济改革。
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(问题、困难等)随之而来
If something brings problems or difficulties in its train, the problems or difficulties occur as a natural or logical result of it.
例句
The cars have brought in their train a host of other problems.
汽车随之带来其他一大堆问题。