词组 | pileup |
释义 | pileup Theme: ACCIDENT n. a wreck; a vehicular crash where more than one vehicle is heavily damaged.There is a serious pileup on the expressway.My car was ruined in a pileup on the highway. pileup ⇨ pileup; pile-upnoun a crash involving multiple vehicles. Originally World War 1 Royal Air Force for 'a plane crash', from an earlier verb sense used by the navy. Widely used by mid-C20, this sense was virtually conventional by the mid-1970s UK, 2000pileupA car accident in which multiple vehicles have crashed together or have been damaged by the crash. Sometimes hyphenated. A pileup on I-25 has caused traffic to come to standstill. The driver of the truck that was involved in the five-car pile-up is being investigated for driving under the influence. pileup n. a wreck; a vehicular crash where more than one vehicle is heavily damaged. There is a serious pileup on the expressway. |
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