The accident occurred at about 8:30 pm Saturday on a viaduct near the city of Wenzhou in Zhejiang when bullet train D301 rear-ended D3115.
上周六晚8点半,浙江温州市附近一座高架桥上发生动车追尾事故,D301次列车与D3115次列车追尾。
文中的rear-end就是指“追尾”,即一车从后面撞上前方的车,例如:My car was rear-ended by a truck.(我的小车被一辆卡车追尾。)如果是在高速公路上发生“连环相撞”则称为pileup或者chain-reaction collisions,pileup属于非正式用语,massive pileup表示“大规模追尾”。
和rear-end相类似的一个词是tailgate,tailgate指的是“紧跟(另一车辆)行驶,尾随”。例如:I wish the person (car) behind us could stop tailgating us.(真希望我们后面那个人/那部车可以不要再紧跟我们。)在美语中,我们还用tailgate party表示(橄榄球赛前在停车场举行的)停车场野餐聚会。
lets moarn for the victims in the accident.
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