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Freight Goods Sending Things Long Distance N Uncount 不可数名词

英语单词 freight
英美音标 [freit]
中文释义 n.货物,船货,运费,货运
vt.装货,使充满,运送
vocab简明 Like many nouns that can mean an action as well as an actual thing, freight refers to either the sending of goods or the goods themselves. It can also mean the charge for sending goods. You pay freight for the freight of your freight.
vocab扩展 Freight can also be used as a verb. If you freight a train with goods, you load it up with items to be shipped, and if you freight your furniture to your new home in another state, you send it there. Use freight like this only if you are sending your things a long distance. If you your new apartment is only across town, you would say that you're moving your things to your new place.
真题原句 Next year, after a series of mergers is completed, just four railroads will control well over 90 percent of all the freight moved by major rail carriers.
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[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]货运 Freight is the movement of goods by lorries, trains, ships, or aeroplanes.
  • France derives 16% of revenue from air freight.

    法国 16%的岁入来自航空货运。

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[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词](货运)货物 Freight is goods that are transported by lorries, trains, ships, or aeroplanes.
  • ...26 tons of freight...

    26 吨货物

  • 90% of managers wanted to see more freight carried by rail.

    90%的经理希望看到更多的货物经由铁路来运输。

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[VERB 动词]以货运运输 When goods are freighted, they are transported in large quantities over a long distance.
  [be V-ed adv/prep]
  [usu passive]
  • From these ports the grain is freighted down to Addis Ababa.

    粮食从这些港口运到亚的斯亚贝巴。

来源 2003.3

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