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A funicular is a small railway that climbs a steep hill or mountain, pulled by a thick metal rope. The cars stay on tracks; they do not hang in the air. Often two cars balance each other: as one goes up, the other comes down, and the rope joins them. Cities build them where a normal train would be too steep. The name comes from a Latin word for a thin cord — the rope is sitting in the word. In loose talk people say cable car for several different machines. Though actually, a cabin swinging on a wire over a valley is not a funicular; a funicular is the one that stays on rails.
纜索鐵路（和空中吊的「纜車」不一樣）
組成From Latin funiculus, 'a thinner cord', a small form of funis, 'rope, cord', plus -ar. Named for the thick metal rope that pulls the cars.
同家族的字
- funambulistsame Latin root funis, 'rope': a funambulist walks on a rope
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
funicularadj
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Of, pertaining to, resembling, or powered by a rope or cable.
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medicinesciencesOf or pertaining to the umbilical cord.
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biologybotanynatural-sciencesHaving a fleshy covering of the seed formed from the funiculus, the attachment point of the seed.
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geometrymathematicssciencesSynonym of catenary.
funicularnoun
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A particular type of rail transit system which ascends a steep urban or mountain incline, having usually two cars sharing a single pair of tracks, with the cars linked by a moving cable and an arrangement of pulleys such that the descending car assists in the hoisting of the ascending car, i.e. the two cars serve as counterweights for each other.
- England's funiculars mostly hug the coast, and this is no coincidence. The development of the Victorian and Edwardian seaside resort played a central role in the uptake of funicular railways across England.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。