When I was younger they had a different set of train people.

我年轻的时候，有许多同的车员。

Sooner or later, unless the freight crew manned the brakes, there must be a terrible collision.

除非货运车员人工操作刹车，早早晚晚将发生重大相撞事故。

" But the bridge is unsafe, " urged the conductor.

" 可是这座桥就要坍了！" 车员说。

At a train station, we sometimes hear a conductor say, " All aboard, " as the train is getting ready to leave.

在火车站，当火车准备离开时，我们有时会听到车员说：“请上车。”

" It is impossible, " responded the conductor. " If you wish to go, please get in" .

" 没法等，" 车员说。" 如果您要走，就请上车吧。"

" I cannot interrupt the trip, " replied the conductor. " We are already three hours behind time" .

" 我让火车停在半路上！" 车员说，" 我们已经误小时了。"

The engineer and conductor were talking excitedly with a signal–man, whom the station–master at Medicine Bow, the next stopping place, had sent on before.

火车司机和车员已经下来了。他们正在和一守路员激烈地争论着，这守路员是前面梅迪西弯车站的站长特地派来等这一趟火车的。

Aouda, on seeing the locomotive come up, hurried out of the station, and asked the conductor, " Are you going to start" ?

机车一到克尔尼堡，艾娥达夫人就出了车站，走过去对车员说：" 你们就要开车了吗？"

" Certainly, " returned the conductor, " besides, it will take us as long as that to reach Medicine Bow on foot" .

" 那可是吗，" 车员说，" 再说，我们从这儿步行到前面车站，也得要这么长的时间。"

When the train arrives, tell the train guard where you're going, and he will help you secure the bicycles in the last carriage and give you a ticket.

当火车到达时，告诉车员你要去哪里，他会帮你看管最后一节车厢的自行车，并给你一张票。

The colonel launched a volley of oaths, denouncing the railway company and the conductor; and Passepartout, who was furious, was not disinclined to make common cause with him.

上校于是破口大骂，一会儿埋怨公司好，一会儿又责备车员对。路路通也是怒气冲天，差一就要帮着上校一齐骂了。

A few minutes later, a train from the west arrived at Harpers Ferry. The wounded guard warned the trainmen of the danger at the bridge. Two of the trainmen decided to investigate.

几分钟后，一从西面开来的火车到达哈珀斯镇。受伤的警卫警告车员桥上有危险，两名车员决定调查一下情况。

At eight o'clock a steward entered the car and announced that the time for going to bed had arrived;and in a few minutes the car was transformed into a dormitory.

八钟，一车员走进车厢，通知旅客睡觉的时候到了。原来这车厢也同时是一节卧车。一会儿，车厢已经改装成了宿舍。

In one second-grade homework assignment, a multiple-choice answer about Harriet Tubman identified her as " a conductor on the underground railroad, " as though she were merely operating a train.

在一项二年级的家庭作业中，一关于哈丽特·塔布曼(Harriet Tubman)的多项选择题的答案将她认定为“地下铁路上的车员”，就好像她只是一开火车的。

The " Sam Hill, " as the old passenger coach is called, stopped at Smith's Creek Depot, where a conductor once threw a young boy and his train laboratory off on the platform.

这火车途中在史密斯的克里克仓库站停靠，一名车员曾在这里将一小男孩和他的车实验室扔到站台上。

" Colonel, " replied the conductor, " we have telegraphed to Omaha for a train, but it is not likely that it will reach Medicine Bow is less than six hours" .

" 上校先生，" 车员说，" 已经给奥马哈车站打电报了。要他们派一车来。但是，六钟以前到梅迪西弯，这还敢说。"

Still more extraordinary than the Seamen's Act was the Adamson law of 1916 fixing a standard eight-hour work-day for trainmen on railroads—a measure wrung from Congress under a threat of a great strike by the four Railway Brotherhoods.

比《海员法》更特别的是 1916 年的亚当森法，它规定了铁路车员的标准工作日八小时——这是在四大铁路兄弟会大罢工的威胁下从国会强行采取的一项措施。