sleeping car

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++

ˈsleeping car noun [countable] TTTa railway carriage with beds for passengers to sleep in 〔火车的〕卧铺车厢 SYN sleeper

Examples from the Corpus

sleeping car• Luxury for first class travellers: a sleeping car attendant delivers hot water bottles on the London-to-Inverness Express, January 1935.• He kept getting up and going to the window to look down on his sleeping car.• It jumped in to fill a gap when InterCity ended seated accommodation on most sleeping car trains.

ˈsleeping car nounChineseSyllable

Corpus railway for carriage sleep with a to beds passengers

sleeping car
ˈsleeping car

noun [countable]
a railway carriage with beds for passengers to sleep in
SYN sleeper

sleeping car

BrE

/ˈsliːpɪŋ kɑː(r)/

NAmE

/ˈsliːpɪŋ kɑːr/

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also sleep·er

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noun

a coach/car on a train with beds for people to sleep in 卧铺车厢