elevated railway

基本解释

Even from the avenue you see the tops of the sky-scraping buildings in the big commercial streets and can hear or almost hear the roar of the elevated railway, earning dividends.
甚至从普拉托利亚大街，你还可以看到大商业街的摩天大楼的顶部，可以听见，或者说几乎可以听到高架铁路发出的轰鸣声，那是赚取红利的声音。
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For developing the urban rail traffic system the three subjects-reason function and meaning of urban elevated railway lrt and passenger traffic terminal in city are expounded.
论述了发展城市轨道交通系统中的三个问题——城市高架铁路、市轻轨运输和城市客运枢纽的原因、用和意义。
Urban Rail trains running in the city on the ground floor, ground or elevated railway on the public transport.
城市轨道车辆非反在城市外运行于地上、地里或许上架铁道上的儿同交通运输工具。

Now the houses were smaller, and there was room behind them for dilapidated bits of an old elevated railway.
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This tradition goes back at least as far as the Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin (the best in the world, a century ago), which was paid for by the builder of the Chicago elevated railway.
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He fought an elevated-railway company and he campaigned for savings banks to be allowed to provide life insurance for poor people.
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