railroad是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 铁路v. 由铁道运输，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the left, as the girls walked silently, the coal-mine lifted its great mounds and its patterned head-stocks, the black railway with the trucks at rest looked like a harbour just below, a large bay of railroad with anchored wagons.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Certainly," said Pencroft, "a beast of burden would be very useful to us until the captain has made a steam cart, or even an engine, for some day we shall have a railroad from Granite House to Port Balloon, with a branch line to Mount Franklin!"
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At that moment about a hundred prisoners were brought from the railroad station.
-- When Katiousha learned this, she decided to go to the railroad station to see him.
-- It was pleasant to Nekhludoff to recall all that; it was pleasant to recall how he came near quarreling with the army officer who attempted to make a bad joke of it; how another comrade sided with him, which drew them more closely together; how merry and successful was the hunt, and how happy he felt that night returning to the railroad station.
-- The party of convicts, which included Maslova, was to leave on the three o'clock train, and in order to see them coming out of the prison and follow them to the railroad station Nekhludoff decided to get to the prison before twelve.
-- When Nekhludoff reached the railroad station the prisoners were already seated in the cars, behind grated windows.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had read that scores of applicants were applying at the office of the Brooklyn City Railroad building and were being received.
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