What apparently had happened three years before was that May had come by bus, not by train, and in her telegram she meant "bus station, " not "railroad station."

显然，3年前，梅是乘汽车而不是火车来的。 她发的电报里指的是“汽车站”而不是“火车站”。

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We traveled by train, not by bus.

我们是坐火车旅行的，不是坐公共汽车。

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Traveling by bus is not so comfortable as by train.

坐公共汽车旅行不如坐火车舒服。

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They did not escape by using a special train.

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And I'm asking not about the locomotive and the caboose but rather I'm asking about the train that I picked out by means of the locomotive and the caboose.

现在我不是问火车头和车尾,我是问火车,通过指出火车头和车尾,来讨论火车。

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So, these rulers have a coercive ability in creating, and I'll come back to this, large standing armies that will be arriving not immediately, they're not arriving by train or being helicoptered in at some distant command, but they will get there if there's trouble.

这些统治者们以铁腕构建极权,稍后我会谈到这一点,一只大规模的军队,在当时很难进行远程调度,因为他们没法坐火车或者搭直升机立刻赶到,但他们最终会到达事发处

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

The two protagonists arrive not by train but in a borrowed Cadillac that they proceed to smash up as they zip madly from club to club, bar to bar, in search of good times and girls.

BBC: Jack Kerouac��s US road trip

Ultimately, we may be on a course for divided theaters not by class, as was the Globe, but by habit, like separate train cars designated for smoking, eating and sleeping, depending on one's preference.

WSJ: Culture City: Eats and Tweets in the Seats

Announcements by on-board train staff "were not that bad" and it was automatic ones which were most annoying, the Lib Dem MP suggested.

BBC: Train operators urged to curb 'excessive' announcements