In 1854 there were 111 millions of passengers conveyed on railways, each passenger travelling an average of 12 miles. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔.伟大的事实.
The moving of passengers and freight seems to be directly related to the progress of civilization, and the factor whose influence has been most felt in this field is the steam locomotive. Edward W. Byrn.十九世纪发明进展.
In 1801 he built his first steam carriage, adapted to carry seven or eight passengers, which was said to have gone off like a bird, but broke down, and was taken to the home of Capt. Edward W. Byrn.十九世纪发明进展.
Before she had gone a quarter of a mile both passengers and observers on the shore were satisfied that the steamboat was a thoroughly practicable vessel. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
Supposing him wrapped up as those two passengers were, is there anything in his bulk and stature to render it unlikely that he was one of them? 查尔斯·狄更斯.双城记.
Two other passengers, besides the one, were plodding up the hill by the side of the mail. 查尔斯·狄更斯.双城记.
The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer passengers than usual. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯历险记.
After the exposition closed the outfit was taken during the same year to the exposition at Louisville, Kentucky, where it was also successful, carrying a large number of passengers. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
The train was made up of two carriages, filled with about forty passengers, and seven wagons loaded with stores. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
There is no railway out of London whereon the carriages run so smoothly, and on which the passengers are so conveniently accommodated, as on the Great Western. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔.伟大的事实.
Not of those odious men and women, said she: such people should be steerage passengers. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.维莱特.
On Christmas eve of 1801, Trevithick made the initial trip with the first successful steam road locomotive through the streets of Camborne in Cornwall, carrying passengers. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
The boat, crew and passengers were brought ashore to me. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
The passengers do not turn out at unseasonable hours, as they used to, to get the earliest possible glimpse of strange foreign cities. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
We passed through several towns, and in one, a very large one, the coach stopped; the horses were taken out, and the passengers alighted to dine. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.简·爱.
Siemens had in operation a road about one thousand six hundred feet in length, on which it is estimated ninety-five thousand passengers were conveyed in seven weeks. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
The locomotive weighed three tons, was twelve feet long, five feet wide, and made a speed of nine miles an hour with a trailer car for passengers. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
That they are perfectly safe for passengers. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔.伟大的事实.
Introduces the next The passengers were landing from the packet on the pier at Calais. 查尔斯·狄更斯.小杜丽.
The bridge is divided into five avenues: one central one for foot passengers, two outer ones for vehicles, and the others for the street cars. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
The guard, the coachman, and the two other passengers eyed him distrustfully. 查尔斯·狄更斯.双城记.
They say he goes about the state-rooms when the passengers are out, and eats up all the soap. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
Once more, the Dover mail struggled on, with the jack-boots of its passengers squashing along by its side. 查尔斯·狄更斯.双城记.
The sand hills, some of them almost inaccessible to foot-passengers, were surveyed off and mapped into fifty vara lots--a vara being a Spanish yard. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
Then the boy would go to his shop in the caboose, set up the item, print it, and sell it, beating the daily newspapers that might be awaiting the passengers at the end of the ride. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
Its streets were blocked up with snow--the few passengers seemed palsied, and frozen by the ungenial visitation of winter. 玛丽·雪莱.最后一个人.
The newsboy found an old hand-press and began to print a paper himself, called the _Grand Trunk Herald_, and sold it to the employees and regular passengers on his line. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
Three-fourths of the Quaker City's passengers were between forty and seventy years of age! 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
This road was primarily built to transport freight, and passengers were in reality an afterthought. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
The passengers slide off upon the prongs of the comb at the top and land without jar or shock. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.