train，英文单词，主要用作为名词、动词，作名词时译为“火车；行列；长队；裙裾”，作动词时译为“培养；训练；瞄准”。

根据柯林斯英汉双解大词典：

意为：

A train is a number of containers on wheels which are all connected together and which are pulled by an engine along a railway. Trains carry people and goods from one place to another. 火车 [also 'by' N]

A train of vehicles, people, or animals is a long line of them travelling slowly in the same direction. (行进中的) 队列

V-T/V-I If someone trains you to do something, they teach you the skills that you need in order to do it. If you train to do something, you learn the skills that you need in order to do it. 培训; 接受培训

1.train可表示“火车”,既可用作可数名词,也可用作不可数名词。喻指“一系列(相关的事情、想法等)”,常跟of连用,一般用单数形式。

3.train用作动词时的基本意思是“训练,培养”,指促使某人学得知识或技能,以便能够从事某种职业或进行某种工作。强调教育者具有明确的目标或宗旨,也暗示受教育者的绝对服从,除此便不能成为适应需要的人才。

4.train既可用作及物动词,也可用作不及物动词。用作及物动词时,接名词、代词作宾语。还可接以“(as/to be) n./adj. ”或动词不定式充当补足语的复合宾语

5.train还可指“使植物朝某方向生长”“整枝”,只用作及物动词,接名词或代词作宾语,其宾语后接表示方向的against, along , over, up等短语。

6.train常与介词for连用,表示“锻炼,为…进行锻炼”,指使人或动物通过锻炼或调理饮食达到身体健康。

7.train的过去分词trained可用作形容词,在句中作定语,意思是“受过训练的”“训练有素的”。

train of thought 一连串的思想或思路

by train 乘火车

train station 火车站

on the train 在火车上；在列车上

in train 准备就绪