名詞 · 1
词源
The Zig Zag Railway near Lithgow, New South Wales, Australia, c. 1900, now operated as a heritage railway. It was built as a switchback (noun sense 1.1) with three lines—called the Top Road, Middle Road, and Bottom Road—to climb the western flank of the Blue Mountains. 澳大利亚新南威尔士利斯戈附近的“之字形铁路”，约1900年建成，目前作为一条历史遗产铁路运营。它以之字形排列的轨道（名词义项 1.1）建造，有三条线路蓝山西侧行驶，分别称为顶路、中路和底路。 A switchback (noun sense 2.3) on the Terrace Trail, a forest trail in Newcastle, Washington, U.S.A. 美国华盛顿州纽卡斯尔的森林小道 Terrace Trail 上的发夹弯（名词义项 2.3） Switchbacks (noun sense 2.3) on the Route du Col de Braus, a mountain pass in the Alps in the department of Alpes-Maritimes, France. 法国滨海阿尔卑斯省阿尔卑斯山脉布劳斯山口上的发夹弯（名词义项 2.3） 該名詞由switch (“使用轉轍器將列車從一條鐵路轉到另一條鐵路”，動詞) + back (“逆轉方向返回”，副詞)衍生而來。 動詞源自於名詞。
读音
- /ˈswɪt͡ʃbæk/
- /ˈswɪt͡ʃˌbæk/
释义
在陡峭斜坡上呈之字形排列的鐵路軌道
Marriage was the switchback, the giant racer, the lobster teas, the guarantee that one would never be alone.
1934，Graham Greene，第4章，收錄於It’s a Battlefield，library版，London：William Heinemann，1959 出版，→OCLC，171頁：鐵路軌道上有陡峭的上坡和下坡，列車部分或完全靠重力移動，利用下坡時產生的動量沿軌道的上坡部分上行；尤指 雲霄飛車，過山車
The WR faction claims that the Westbury route is better adapted to high speed, to which advocates of the SR route are apt to retort that the effect of modern diesel traction on schedules over the Salisbury–Exeter switchback has yet to be measured (the speed potential between Waterloo and Salisbury is scarcely disputable) […]
1964 March，「News and comment: Which way to the west?」，收錄於Modern Railways，Shepperton, Surrey：Ian Allan Publishing，147頁：由一系列陡峭的上升和下降構成的飛行路徑，通常作為特技飛行
急轉彎的道路、鐵道
The switchback road to Diabaig - pronounced 'Jer-vague' - passes through some of the most exhilarating scenery in Scotland. […] With a final swoop, the road plummets down into Diabaig, where cottages are dotted across the slopes of a rocky semi-circle.
1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 151:馬蹄彎，髮夾彎
Already, we enter some airport bathrooms through a brief switchback of walls, so that we don’t ever grasp a door handle.
2019年 4月25日，Samanth Subramanian，「Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands」，收錄於Katharine Viner（編），The Guardian，London：Guardian News & Media，→ISSN，→OCLC，原始內容存檔自原始內容，存檔時間 2022年12月21日：
词形与写法（1）
| 词形 | 标注 | 转写 |
|---|---|---|
| switchbacks | plural |