Freight

(noun.) transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates.

(noun.) the charge for transporting something by common carrier; 'we pay the freight'; 'the freight rate is usually cheaper'.

(verb.) load with goods for transportation.

(verb.) transport commercially as cargo.

艾伯特整理

• Capacity freight engine, ten tons net freight; cost of handling a ton of freight per mile per horse-power to be less than ordinary locomotive. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The moving of passengers and freight seems to be directly related to the progress of civilization, and the factor whose influence has been most felt in this field is the steam locomotive. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Approximately 150 loaded freight cars are sent out every day. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• We trucked freight across the mountains with the big carts before the camions came into use. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Their freight is much less, and their insurance not greater; and no goods, besides, are less liable to suffer by the carriage. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• He left the war horse that had carried him through his Spanish campaigns behind him when he returned to Italy in order to save freight. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• One night I got an order to hold a freight train, and I replied that I would. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The spectators seemed spellbound, for no shouts or exclamations were heard, as all watched anxiously the silent course of the heavily freighted pontoons. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.

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