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单词 engine driver
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Definition of engine driver in English:

engine driver

noun
British dated
  • A person who drives a railway locomotive.

    〈英〉火车司机

    Example sentencesExamples
    • His father, Reg, a former Great Western Railway engine driver, always read the paper.
    • He works full-time in Switzerland as an engine driver on the country's electric railway network.
    • Yesterday he enjoyed chatting with the engine driver and looking at the trains at the National Railway Museum in York.
    • Her father was a railway worker and later an engine driver, and although he kept his job during the 1930s Depression, the family had little money to spare.
    • To become an engine driver it was necessary to start at the bottom, cleaning locomotives, to progress to stoking them and then at last to driving.

Definition of engine driver in US English:

engine driver

nounˈenjən ˌdrīvərˈɛndʒən ˌdraɪvər
British dated
  • A driver of a locomotive; an engineer.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • His father, Reg, a former Great Western Railway engine driver, always read the paper.
    • He works full-time in Switzerland as an engine driver on the country's electric railway network.
    • Yesterday he enjoyed chatting with the engine driver and looking at the trains at the National Railway Museum in York.
    • Her father was a railway worker and later an engine driver, and although he kept his job during the 1930s Depression, the family had little money to spare.
    • To become an engine driver it was necessary to start at the bottom, cleaning locomotives, to progress to stoking them and then at last to driving.
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