Transcontinental

(adj.) spanning or crossing or on the farther side of a continent; 'transcontinental railway'; 'transcontinental travelers'; 'a transcontinental city' .

录入:谢里夫

• The First Transcontinental Line. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The Pacific Railway, the first of our half a dozen transcontinental railways, was completed in 1869. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• It is such tremendous trifles, not the climbing of mountains and the bridging of chasms, that make the transcontinental line one of the wonders of the ages. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• One mile of single wire used in the transcontinental line weighs 435 pounds, the weight of the wires in the entire line being 5,920,000 pounds, or 2,960 tons. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The opening of the first transcontinental line between New York and San Francisco on January 25, 1915, was an epoch-making event in telephone history. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

校对:佩里