單軌:系統與車
兩個意思其實是同一張圖的兩個看法:一個看整條線,一個看線上那台車。英文的 train、bus 也是這樣用同一個字。
noun · B2
A railway system in which the trains run along one single rail instead of two, with the rail usually built high above the ground on tall supports.
單軌鐵路(系統)
You can think of one single beam running high above a road on tall posts, with a train sitting astride it. Not two rails on the ground — one rail, up in the air. Everything the word does comes from that single line: where it can be built, what it looks like from below, and what you are riding when you are up there.
The word was borrowed from French monorail, and it is simply mono- (one) plus rail. The same mono- appears in words like monologue, one person speaking.
這個字是從法文 monorail 借來的,拆開就是 mono-(一)加 rail(軌道)。同一個 mono- 也出現在 monologue(一個人說的話)這種字裡,意思都是「一」。所以字面直接就是「單軌」,跟畫面完全對得上。
Wiktionary (kaikki extract, source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1386032563:13986), entry 'monorail': Borrowed from French monorail, equivalent to mono- + rail.
One branch
單軌:系統與車
兩個意思其實是同一張圖的兩個看法:一個看整條線,一個看線上那台車。英文的 train、bus 也是這樣用同一個字。
noun · B2
A railway system in which the trains run along one single rail instead of two, with the rail usually built high above the ground on tall supports.
單軌鐵路(系統)