.pelican 'crossing n[C] a place on some roads in Britain where someone who wants to cross the road can stop the traffic by pushing a button that changes the traffic lights →zebra crossing
1. The crossing voyage of about 5000 miles took two months, three weeks and two days. 大约5000多英里的航程花了两个月三星期零两天的时间。
2. The story began on a downtown Brooklyn street corner. An elderly man had collapsed while crossing the street, and an ambulance rushed him to Kings County Hospital. 故事开始于布鲁克林闹市区的一条街的拐角处。有个老汉在穿马路时晕倒在地,一辆救护车把他急送到金斯县医院。
3. The truck driver was very fit. He rode quickly, making big circles in the parking lot near the border crossing. 那个卡车司机身体很棒,他骑得很快,在过境处的停车场绕了几大圈。
4. Queen Elizabeth and French President Francois Mitterrand will ride a train downward into the $15 billion Channel Tunnel today, crossing the English Channel by land for the first time since it was a marsh 8,000 years ago. 今天,伊丽莎白女王和法国总统弗朗索瓦·密特朗将乘火车进入造价达150亿美元的海峡隧道,首次由陆地穿越8,000年前曾是一片沼泽地的英吉利海峡。
5. He is crossing the bridge. 他正在过桥。
6. After crossing the Equator, the captain called in at a port to have a new rudder fitted, 跨越赤道后,船长将船停靠在一个港口,在那儿换了一只舵。
7. At 125th Street, Mr. Torres would transfer to the Number 4 train by crossing the platform. 到了第125街,多里斯先生就要穿过月台去转4号列车。
8. Computers will show drivers maps of districts the car is crossing on a small screen in the car. 电脑会在汽车里的一个小屏幕上向驾驶员显示汽车所经过地区的地图。
9. I remember driving one night with my friend in her parents' automobile. We stopped at a red light at Carlton and Tulane where a black man was crossing the street in front of us. 现在我走进了我家附近的一家加油站。一个黑人已经在排队等侯。他突然跳起来并转过身,在看见我以后才放松下来,对我说我吓着他了,因为这一带常出事。
10. For hundreds of years, St. Bernard dogs have saved the lives of travellers crossing the dangerous Pass. 几百年来,圣伯纳德修道院驯养狗拯救了许多翻越这道山口的旅游者的生命。