Definition of trolley in English:

trolley

nounPlural trolleys ˈtrɒliˈtrɑli

1British A large metal basket or frame on wheels, used for transporting heavy or large items, such as supermarket purchases or luggage at an airport or railway station.
〈英〉（超市购物或机场、火车站运送行李的）手推车
Example sentencesExamples
- Activists went into the supermarkets, filled trolleys with pasta, and then left them at the checkout counter.
- I saw several people who, like him, appeared to have their worldly possessions stacked neatly on a metal trolley.
- Supermarket trolleys can cause back strain.
- The government knows older people will be forced out of decent jobs and forced into menial jobs like filling supermarket trolleys and opening doors for a pittance.
- Supermarket trolleys are well-known for their irritating tendency to veer from the straight and narrow, apparently at their own whim.
- A shocking exposé of the British food industry that will make readers look seriously at the contents of their supermarket trolleys.
- Clearing customs at an airport terminal, he insists on pushing a luggage trolley.
- It is possible they used a metal trolley to move the stolen goods, which was abandoned outside the building.
- Many of us spend weekend afternoons pushing the trolley round the supermarket or ambling through a shopping mall.
- Many parents use car seats to carry their babies or secure them in their pushchairs and supermarket trolleys.
- We pay for trolleys in airports and supermarkets, and for parking we either scratch a permit, ‘pay and display’ or ‘park and ride’.
- Supermarkets have experienced a surge in the theft of trolleys and shopping baskets since the introduction of the plastic bags tax earlier this year.
- For some reason, the papers were wheeled around the hall in supermarket trolleys.
- The group's services range from treatments to harden metals for aero-engines to providing the shine on metals used in supermarket trolleys.
- Retailers recognise that some shoppers have no other way of getting their groceries home, so they won't stop people pushing trolleys out of supermarket car parks.
- Choose a trolley rather than a basket as this offers you more mobility.
- There was no wheelchair available and she was advised to use an airport trolley.
- Just like supermarket trolleys, baggage trolleys have a mind of their own.
- When it came to buckling the children into the supermarket trolley, belt use was in direct proportion to attractiveness.
- Supermarket trolleys and burned-out cars replaced the brightly coloured barges that once proudly carried grain, coal, wool, salt and timber.
1. 1.1 A small table on wheels or castors, typically used to convey food and drink.
  （尤指送食物、饮料等的）台车，食品车
  Example sentencesExamples
  One businessman was told there were too many people on board and they could not wheel trolleys with hot drinks as it was a safety hazard.
  Catering consists of a trolley offering drinks, tea, coffee and snacks.
  Sebastian stood up and walked to a trolley of food that had been behind the door.
  Satine turns to a trolley with food and drink on it, and picks up a bottle of Champagne from the ice bucket.
  Then, last week, the system would not operate at all, so the staff were stuck outside the block unable to return to duty - unable to get the food trolleys in, so the meals were served late.
  And while the fare is more, you get more comfort - including toilets and a food trolley service.
  Apart from the used items, the showroom also sports new custom-made articles like dinner tables and bar trolleys.
  Communal cooking in Israel will never excite the gourmet, but the meals which are wheeled to the tables on stainless steel trolleys are balanced and filling.
  A trolley is wheeled in from the kitchen, and any teachers that happen to be present at the time team together to dish out the meals.
  He took to the kitchen, smashing bowls and plates, turning over trolleys and pushing over tables.
  Two of them will get an opportunity to accompany the drinks trolley during the match!
  We were just about to board when we were told a food trolley had activated one of the emergency chutes and they had to fly a part from Britain.
  Prisoners are fed breakfast, lunch and dinner by wardens who come down the corridors with ready-cooked food on trolleys but many inmates prefer to make their own meals in the evening.
  In the restaurant, walking, talking robot trolleys will move around serving drinks.
  A smartly dressed waitress pushed a trolley to the table and loaded it promptly.
  Without missing a beat, another aide approached the table, wheeling a trolley heaped with food.
  The portable oven trolleys, found in each ward, ensure the food is hot, without burning, before serving.
  ‘Thanks for your help,’ Keira said sarcastically, as she grabbed a metal tray off the food trolley.
  In their immaculate uniforms they go through safety procedures and tirelessly parade the aisles, pushing trolleys laden with drinks, meals and duty free.
  It's a small, intimate restaurant with just a few tables, a sweet trolley parked prominently in the centre of the room when you arrive.
2. 1.2 A hospital bed on wheels for transporting patients.
  （医院用的）担架车
  Example sentencesExamples
  He said the doors were designed to close slowly, and to stay open longer than a conventional lift, to enable the medical staff ample time to wheel the trolley and patient out of, or into, the lift.
  Mum was lying on a trolley, hooked up to various machines.
  It was no longer uncommon for patients to be lying on hospital trolleys for up to four days.
  She was in a lot of pain and discomfort but still she had to spend 23 hours on a hospital trolley before a bed was found.
  During the same period the highest recorded number of patients on trolleys at the Mercy Hospital was 41.
  The ward can take eight extra trolleys or beds and patients suffering from minor ailments will be placed there to free up beds in the hospital for flu patients.
  Patients were waiting on trolleys in hospital hallways.
  Patients on trolleys line hospital corridors, queuing for days to access beds in a system strained by the sheer volume of demand.
  The organisation has begun to release daily figures which show that an average of 200 patients are left lying on hospital trolleys waiting for beds.
  This morning the corridors are crowded, there are patients even lying on trolleys outside the hospital waiting to be treated.
  Ambulances have been queuing up at the Emergency Department, waiting up to 90 minutes before they can get their patients from a trolley to a bed.
  Marcus is tied to a surgical trolley with thick leather straps, totally unable to move.
  It has also provided diagnostic equipment, beds and trolleys for the hospital.
  The 30,000-strong nurses' union said it received reports of severe overcrowding, with dozens of patients on trolleys in the city's major acute hospitals.
  Patients are marooned on trolleys because there are no available beds even though there are plenty of beds available in private nursing homes.
  As a result, ambulance crew were unable to answer emergency calls until normal hospital trolleys were found for patients.
  According to the Irish Nurses Organisation, more than 200 patients were on trolleys, awaiting beds, in hospitals around the country.
  The results of that study emerged after a survey revealed 140 patients were waiting on trolleys in hospitals and around the country yesterday.
  Accident victims are being rushed between hospitals or left on trolleys for hours because of a desperate shortage of beds and staff.
  ‘It's important that students know how to safely move a patient from the trolley back into bed,’ explains Nic.
2A wheel attached to a pole, used for collecting current from an overhead electric wire to drive a tram.
电车触轮（与架空电线接触以驱动电车）
Example sentencesExamples
- They also had to replace the trolley pole when it escaped from the overhead wire.
- In later years, the tarries were electrified, and poles held the trolley wire.
Synonyms
handcart, pushcart, barrow, wheelbarrow
3
short for trolleybus or trolley car
Example sentencesExamples
- Electric trolleys, which received their power from an overhead wire and returned it through the rails, provided the system that finally made the horse obsolete.

Phrases

off one's trolley

informal Mad; insane.
〈英，非正式〉疯的；精神不正常的
Example sentencesExamples
- Haven't they noticed that she's off her trolley?
- People think I'm off my trolley but it's exhilarating.
- He is an ex-supermarket boss who is off his trolley.
- If, ten years ago, anyone had proposed that children in British schools should be taught in any other language than English they too would have been vilified and accused of being ‘off their trolley.’
- I just didn't expect him to be so totally off his trolley as he was that night.
- ‘I reckon you're off your trolley,’ she says with surprising insight.
- First, to make sure I wasn't totally off my trolley, I sent an email to my fellow rocker, Michele.
- Then of course there are those who are quite literally off their trolley.
- She said you'd think she's off her trolley if I told you.
- Is it my imagination or have we all gone off our trolley?
Synonyms
severely mentally ill, mentally ill, insane, mad, certifiable, deranged, demented, of unsound mind, out of one's mind, not in one's right mind, not together, crazed, maniac, maniacal, lunatic, unbalanced, unhinged, unstable, disturbed, distracted, stark mad, manic, frenzied, raving, distraught, frantic, hysterical, delirious, mad as a hatter, mad as a march hare

Origin

Early 19th century: of dialect origin, perhaps from troll².

Rhymes

Barbirolli, brolly, collie, dolly, folly, golly, holly, jolly, lolly, Mollie, molly, nollie, Ollie, polly, poly, volley, wally

Definition of trolley in US English:

trolley

nounˈträlēˈtrɑli

1
short for trolley car or trolley bus
Example sentencesExamples
- We went by trolley to a Chinese restaurant, Sam Wah's, which I believe was the only one in Austin.
- He was a former president of the Historical Society and conducted trolley tours for the Society.
- When he became a Democratic alderman in Brooklyn, he also became a conductor on the Coney Island trolley.
- Some eighty thousand trolleys once clanged over forty-five thousand miles of track in cities across the United States.
- Local businesses sponsor the Uptown route, and the red trolleys are called the Gold Rush Service, after the gold that was discovered here in the late 1700s.
- Palm trees stand tall, the red car trolley can be seen, jazz can be heard from buildings - it's a wonderful new day.
- And several museums and a zoo on Chicago's North Side just won a federal grant for a new trolley to bring visitors up from downtown.
- Readily available bus shuttles and the city's trolley service were the best ways to go and quite easy.
- Auto companies did buy up the city's Red Car trolley and dismantle it.
- You can easily stroll Galveston's gas-lamp - studded streets or get around by trolley.
- A few minutes later, an old looking trolley cruised down the street and stopped in front of Toby's driveway.
- The Route 15 trolley last ran on Girard Avenue in September 1992.
- Despite this particular difficulty in enforcement, Mobile city officials stubbornly sought to segregate trolleys.
- Although the 1917 law further solidified Mobile's system of segregated trolleys, African Americans did not respond with a boycott as in 1902.
- In addition, bus and trolley fleets will be renewed and upgraded.
- The village is served by four stops on the city's trolley line, which makes it transit-oriented.
- There are also bicycles with big baskets to assist boaters in their errands, and during special boating events, free trolleys circle the marinas along the river and downtown.
- They have one double-decker trolley that was under heavy restoration, and two that are enclosed for use in the winter.
- A restaurant and gift shop appeared, guided tours were offered in open-air trolleys, and visitors could attend a cliff-diving show or see a hula dance.
2A wheel attached to a pole, used for collecting current from an overhead electric wire to drive a streetcar or trolley bus.
电车触轮（与架空电线接触以驱动电车）
Example sentencesExamples
- They also had to replace the trolley pole when it escaped from the overhead wire.
- In later years, the tarries were electrified, and poles held the trolley wire.
Synonyms
handcart, pushcart, barrow, wheelbarrow
3British A large metal basket or frame on wheels, used for transporting heavy or large items, such as supermarket purchases or luggage at an airport or railroad station.
〈英〉（超市购物或机场、火车站运送行李的）手推车
Example sentencesExamples
- Choose a trolley rather than a basket as this offers you more mobility.
- Many of us spend weekend afternoons pushing the trolley round the supermarket or ambling through a shopping mall.
- We pay for trolleys in airports and supermarkets, and for parking we either scratch a permit, ‘pay and display’ or ‘park and ride’.
- It is possible they used a metal trolley to move the stolen goods, which was abandoned outside the building.
- A shocking exposé of the British food industry that will make readers look seriously at the contents of their supermarket trolleys.
- Supermarket trolleys can cause back strain.
- Many parents use car seats to carry their babies or secure them in their pushchairs and supermarket trolleys.
- The group's services range from treatments to harden metals for aero-engines to providing the shine on metals used in supermarket trolleys.
- Supermarket trolleys are well-known for their irritating tendency to veer from the straight and narrow, apparently at their own whim.
- I saw several people who, like him, appeared to have their worldly possessions stacked neatly on a metal trolley.
- There was no wheelchair available and she was advised to use an airport trolley.
- For some reason, the papers were wheeled around the hall in supermarket trolleys.
- Activists went into the supermarkets, filled trolleys with pasta, and then left them at the checkout counter.
- When it came to buckling the children into the supermarket trolley, belt use was in direct proportion to attractiveness.
- The government knows older people will be forced out of decent jobs and forced into menial jobs like filling supermarket trolleys and opening doors for a pittance.
- Retailers recognise that some shoppers have no other way of getting their groceries home, so they won't stop people pushing trolleys out of supermarket car parks.
- Clearing customs at an airport terminal, he insists on pushing a luggage trolley.
- Supermarket trolleys and burned-out cars replaced the brightly coloured barges that once proudly carried grain, coal, wool, salt and timber.
- Just like supermarket trolleys, baggage trolleys have a mind of their own.
- Supermarkets have experienced a surge in the theft of trolleys and shopping baskets since the introduction of the plastic bags tax earlier this year.
1. 3.1 A small table on wheels or casters, typically used to convey food and drink.
  （尤指送食物、饮料等的）台车，食品车
  Example sentencesExamples
  Apart from the used items, the showroom also sports new custom-made articles like dinner tables and bar trolleys.
  He took to the kitchen, smashing bowls and plates, turning over trolleys and pushing over tables.
  The portable oven trolleys, found in each ward, ensure the food is hot, without burning, before serving.
  Catering consists of a trolley offering drinks, tea, coffee and snacks.
  We were just about to board when we were told a food trolley had activated one of the emergency chutes and they had to fly a part from Britain.
  And while the fare is more, you get more comfort - including toilets and a food trolley service.
  Communal cooking in Israel will never excite the gourmet, but the meals which are wheeled to the tables on stainless steel trolleys are balanced and filling.
  In their immaculate uniforms they go through safety procedures and tirelessly parade the aisles, pushing trolleys laden with drinks, meals and duty free.
  In the restaurant, walking, talking robot trolleys will move around serving drinks.
  Then, last week, the system would not operate at all, so the staff were stuck outside the block unable to return to duty - unable to get the food trolleys in, so the meals were served late.
  A smartly dressed waitress pushed a trolley to the table and loaded it promptly.
  Sebastian stood up and walked to a trolley of food that had been behind the door.
  It's a small, intimate restaurant with just a few tables, a sweet trolley parked prominently in the centre of the room when you arrive.
  Without missing a beat, another aide approached the table, wheeling a trolley heaped with food.
  Satine turns to a trolley with food and drink on it, and picks up a bottle of Champagne from the ice bucket.
  ‘Thanks for your help,’ Keira said sarcastically, as she grabbed a metal tray off the food trolley.
  One businessman was told there were too many people on board and they could not wheel trolleys with hot drinks as it was a safety hazard.
  Two of them will get an opportunity to accompany the drinks trolley during the match!
  A trolley is wheeled in from the kitchen, and any teachers that happen to be present at the time team together to dish out the meals.
  Prisoners are fed breakfast, lunch and dinner by wardens who come down the corridors with ready-cooked food on trolleys but many inmates prefer to make their own meals in the evening.

Phrases

off one's trolley

informal Mad; insane.
〈英，非正式〉疯的；精神不正常的
Example sentencesExamples
- He is an ex-supermarket boss who is off his trolley.
- ‘I reckon you're off your trolley,’ she says with surprising insight.
- Haven't they noticed that she's off her trolley?
- Is it my imagination or have we all gone off our trolley?
- If, ten years ago, anyone had proposed that children in British schools should be taught in any other language than English they too would have been vilified and accused of being ‘off their trolley.’
- People think I'm off my trolley but it's exhilarating.
- Then of course there are those who are quite literally off their trolley.
- First, to make sure I wasn't totally off my trolley, I sent an email to my fellow rocker, Michele.
- I just didn't expect him to be so totally off his trolley as he was that night.
- She said you'd think she's off her trolley if I told you.
Synonyms
severely mentally ill, mentally ill, insane, mad, certifiable, deranged, demented, of unsound mind, out of one's mind, not in one's right mind, not together, crazed, maniac, maniacal, lunatic, unbalanced, unhinged, unstable, disturbed, distracted, stark mad, manic, frenzied, raving, distraught, frantic, hysterical, delirious, mad as a hatter, mad as a march hare

Origin

Early 19th century: of dialect origin, perhaps from troll.

词汇	trolley
释义	Definition of trolley in English: trolley nounPlural trolleys ˈtrɒliˈtrɑli 1British A large metal basket or frame on wheels, used for transporting heavy or large items, such as supermarket purchases or luggage at an airport or railway station. 〈英〉（超市购物或机场、火车站运送行李的）手推车 Example sentencesExamples Activists went into the supermarkets, filled trolleys with pasta, and then left them at the checkout counter. I saw several people who, like him, appeared to have their worldly possessions stacked neatly on a metal trolley. Supermarket trolleys can cause back strain. The government knows older people will be forced out of decent jobs and forced into menial jobs like filling supermarket trolleys and opening doors for a pittance. Supermarket trolleys are well-known for their irritating tendency to veer from the straight and narrow, apparently at their own whim. A shocking exposé of the British food industry that will make readers look seriously at the contents of their supermarket trolleys. Clearing customs at an airport terminal, he insists on pushing a luggage trolley. It is possible they used a metal trolley to move the stolen goods, which was abandoned outside the building. Many of us spend weekend afternoons pushing the trolley round the supermarket or ambling through a shopping mall. Many parents use car seats to carry their babies or secure them in their pushchairs and supermarket trolleys. We pay for trolleys in airports and supermarkets, and for parking we either scratch a permit, ‘pay and display’ or ‘park and ride’. Supermarkets have experienced a surge in the theft of trolleys and shopping baskets since the introduction of the plastic bags tax earlier this year. For some reason, the papers were wheeled around the hall in supermarket trolleys. The group's services range from treatments to harden metals for aero-engines to providing the shine on metals used in supermarket trolleys. Retailers recognise that some shoppers have no other way of getting their groceries home, so they won't stop people pushing trolleys out of supermarket car parks. Choose a trolley rather than a basket as this offers you more mobility. There was no wheelchair available and she was advised to use an airport trolley. Just like supermarket trolleys, baggage trolleys have a mind of their own. When it came to buckling the children into the supermarket trolley, belt use was in direct proportion to attractiveness. Supermarket trolleys and burned-out cars replaced the brightly coloured barges that once proudly carried grain, coal, wool, salt and timber. 1.1 A small table on wheels or castors, typically used to convey food and drink. （尤指送食物、饮料等的）台车，食品车 Example sentencesExamples One businessman was told there were too many people on board and they could not wheel trolleys with hot drinks as it was a safety hazard. Catering consists of a trolley offering drinks, tea, coffee and snacks. Sebastian stood up and walked to a trolley of food that had been behind the door. Satine turns to a trolley with food and drink on it, and picks up a bottle of Champagne from the ice bucket. Then, last week, the system would not operate at all, so the staff were stuck outside the block unable to return to duty - unable to get the food trolleys in, so the meals were served late. And while the fare is more, you get more comfort - including toilets and a food trolley service. Apart from the used items, the showroom also sports new custom-made articles like dinner tables and bar trolleys. Communal cooking in Israel will never excite the gourmet, but the meals which are wheeled to the tables on stainless steel trolleys are balanced and filling. A trolley is wheeled in from the kitchen, and any teachers that happen to be present at the time team together to dish out the meals. He took to the kitchen, smashing bowls and plates, turning over trolleys and pushing over tables. Two of them will get an opportunity to accompany the drinks trolley during the match! We were just about to board when we were told a food trolley had activated one of the emergency chutes and they had to fly a part from Britain. Prisoners are fed breakfast, lunch and dinner by wardens who come down the corridors with ready-cooked food on trolleys but many inmates prefer to make their own meals in the evening. In the restaurant, walking, talking robot trolleys will move around serving drinks. A smartly dressed waitress pushed a trolley to the table and loaded it promptly. Without missing a beat, another aide approached the table, wheeling a trolley heaped with food. The portable oven trolleys, found in each ward, ensure the food is hot, without burning, before serving. ‘Thanks for your help,’ Keira said sarcastically, as she grabbed a metal tray off the food trolley. In their immaculate uniforms they go through safety procedures and tirelessly parade the aisles, pushing trolleys laden with drinks, meals and duty free. It's a small, intimate restaurant with just a few tables, a sweet trolley parked prominently in the centre of the room when you arrive. 1.2 A hospital bed on wheels for transporting patients. （医院用的）担架车 Example sentencesExamples He said the doors were designed to close slowly, and to stay open longer than a conventional lift, to enable the medical staff ample time to wheel the trolley and patient out of, or into, the lift. Mum was lying on a trolley, hooked up to various machines. It was no longer uncommon for patients to be lying on hospital trolleys for up to four days. She was in a lot of pain and discomfort but still she had to spend 23 hours on a hospital trolley before a bed was found. During the same period the highest recorded number of patients on trolleys at the Mercy Hospital was 41. The ward can take eight extra trolleys or beds and patients suffering from minor ailments will be placed there to free up beds in the hospital for flu patients. Patients were waiting on trolleys in hospital hallways. Patients on trolleys line hospital corridors, queuing for days to access beds in a system strained by the sheer volume of demand. The organisation has begun to release daily figures which show that an average of 200 patients are left lying on hospital trolleys waiting for beds. This morning the corridors are crowded, there are patients even lying on trolleys outside the hospital waiting to be treated. Ambulances have been queuing up at the Emergency Department, waiting up to 90 minutes before they can get their patients from a trolley to a bed. Marcus is tied to a surgical trolley with thick leather straps, totally unable to move. It has also provided diagnostic equipment, beds and trolleys for the hospital. The 30,000-strong nurses' union said it received reports of severe overcrowding, with dozens of patients on trolleys in the city's major acute hospitals. Patients are marooned on trolleys because there are no available beds even though there are plenty of beds available in private nursing homes. As a result, ambulance crew were unable to answer emergency calls until normal hospital trolleys were found for patients. According to the Irish Nurses Organisation, more than 200 patients were on trolleys, awaiting beds, in hospitals around the country. The results of that study emerged after a survey revealed 140 patients were waiting on trolleys in hospitals and around the country yesterday. Accident victims are being rushed between hospitals or left on trolleys for hours because of a desperate shortage of beds and staff. ‘It's important that students know how to safely move a patient from the trolley back into bed,’ explains Nic. 2A wheel attached to a pole, used for collecting current from an overhead electric wire to drive a tram. 电车触轮（与架空电线接触以驱动电车） Example sentencesExamples They also had to replace the trolley pole when it escaped from the overhead wire. In later years, the tarries were electrified, and poles held the trolley wire. Synonyms handcart, pushcart, barrow, wheelbarrow 3 short for trolleybus or trolley car Example sentencesExamples Electric trolleys, which received their power from an overhead wire and returned it through the rails, provided the system that finally made the horse obsolete. Phrases off one's trolley informal Mad; insane. 〈英，非正式〉疯的；精神不正常的 Example sentencesExamples Haven't they noticed that she's off her trolley? People think I'm off my trolley but it's exhilarating. He is an ex-supermarket boss who is off his trolley. If, ten years ago, anyone had proposed that children in British schools should be taught in any other language than English they too would have been vilified and accused of being ‘off their trolley.’ I just didn't expect him to be so totally off his trolley as he was that night. ‘I reckon you're off your trolley,’ she says with surprising insight. First, to make sure I wasn't totally off my trolley, I sent an email to my fellow rocker, Michele. Then of course there are those who are quite literally off their trolley. She said you'd think she's off her trolley if I told you. Is it my imagination or have we all gone off our trolley? Synonyms severely mentally ill, mentally ill, insane, mad, certifiable, deranged, demented, of unsound mind, out of one's mind, not in one's right mind, not together, crazed, maniac, maniacal, lunatic, unbalanced, unhinged, unstable, disturbed, distracted, stark mad, manic, frenzied, raving, distraught, frantic, hysterical, delirious, mad as a hatter, mad as a march hare Origin Early 19th century: of dialect origin, perhaps from troll². Rhymes Barbirolli, brolly, collie, dolly, folly, golly, holly, jolly, lolly, Mollie, molly, nollie, Ollie, polly, poly, volley, wally noun.1 phr. Definition of trolley in US English: trolley nounˈträlēˈtrɑli 1 short for trolley car or trolley bus Example sentencesExamples We went by trolley to a Chinese restaurant, Sam Wah's, which I believe was the only one in Austin. He was a former president of the Historical Society and conducted trolley tours for the Society. When he became a Democratic alderman in Brooklyn, he also became a conductor on the Coney Island trolley. Some eighty thousand trolleys once clanged over forty-five thousand miles of track in cities across the United States. Local businesses sponsor the Uptown route, and the red trolleys are called the Gold Rush Service, after the gold that was discovered here in the late 1700s. Palm trees stand tall, the red car trolley can be seen, jazz can be heard from buildings - it's a wonderful new day. And several museums and a zoo on Chicago's North Side just won a federal grant for a new trolley to bring visitors up from downtown. Readily available bus shuttles and the city's trolley service were the best ways to go and quite easy. Auto companies did buy up the city's Red Car trolley and dismantle it. You can easily stroll Galveston's gas-lamp - studded streets or get around by trolley. A few minutes later, an old looking trolley cruised down the street and stopped in front of Toby's driveway. The Route 15 trolley last ran on Girard Avenue in September 1992. Despite this particular difficulty in enforcement, Mobile city officials stubbornly sought to segregate trolleys. Although the 1917 law further solidified Mobile's system of segregated trolleys, African Americans did not respond with a boycott as in 1902. In addition, bus and trolley fleets will be renewed and upgraded. The village is served by four stops on the city's trolley line, which makes it transit-oriented. There are also bicycles with big baskets to assist boaters in their errands, and during special boating events, free trolleys circle the marinas along the river and downtown. They have one double-decker trolley that was under heavy restoration, and two that are enclosed for use in the winter. A restaurant and gift shop appeared, guided tours were offered in open-air trolleys, and visitors could attend a cliff-diving show or see a hula dance. 2A wheel attached to a pole, used for collecting current from an overhead electric wire to drive a streetcar or trolley bus. 电车触轮（与架空电线接触以驱动电车） Example sentencesExamples They also had to replace the trolley pole when it escaped from the overhead wire. In later years, the tarries were electrified, and poles held the trolley wire. Synonyms handcart, pushcart, barrow, wheelbarrow 3British A large metal basket or frame on wheels, used for transporting heavy or large items, such as supermarket purchases or luggage at an airport or railroad station. 〈英〉（超市购物或机场、火车站运送行李的）手推车 Example sentencesExamples Choose a trolley rather than a basket as this offers you more mobility. Many of us spend weekend afternoons pushing the trolley round the supermarket or ambling through a shopping mall. We pay for trolleys in airports and supermarkets, and for parking we either scratch a permit, ‘pay and display’ or ‘park and ride’. It is possible they used a metal trolley to move the stolen goods, which was abandoned outside the building. A shocking exposé of the British food industry that will make readers look seriously at the contents of their supermarket trolleys. Supermarket trolleys can cause back strain. Many parents use car seats to carry their babies or secure them in their pushchairs and supermarket trolleys. The group's services range from treatments to harden metals for aero-engines to providing the shine on metals used in supermarket trolleys. Supermarket trolleys are well-known for their irritating tendency to veer from the straight and narrow, apparently at their own whim. I saw several people who, like him, appeared to have their worldly possessions stacked neatly on a metal trolley. There was no wheelchair available and she was advised to use an airport trolley. For some reason, the papers were wheeled around the hall in supermarket trolleys. Activists went into the supermarkets, filled trolleys with pasta, and then left them at the checkout counter. When it came to buckling the children into the supermarket trolley, belt use was in direct proportion to attractiveness. The government knows older people will be forced out of decent jobs and forced into menial jobs like filling supermarket trolleys and opening doors for a pittance. Retailers recognise that some shoppers have no other way of getting their groceries home, so they won't stop people pushing trolleys out of supermarket car parks. Clearing customs at an airport terminal, he insists on pushing a luggage trolley. Supermarket trolleys and burned-out cars replaced the brightly coloured barges that once proudly carried grain, coal, wool, salt and timber. Just like supermarket trolleys, baggage trolleys have a mind of their own. Supermarkets have experienced a surge in the theft of trolleys and shopping baskets since the introduction of the plastic bags tax earlier this year. 3.1 A small table on wheels or casters, typically used to convey food and drink. （尤指送食物、饮料等的）台车，食品车 Example sentencesExamples Apart from the used items, the showroom also sports new custom-made articles like dinner tables and bar trolleys. He took to the kitchen, smashing bowls and plates, turning over trolleys and pushing over tables. The portable oven trolleys, found in each ward, ensure the food is hot, without burning, before serving. Catering consists of a trolley offering drinks, tea, coffee and snacks. We were just about to board when we were told a food trolley had activated one of the emergency chutes and they had to fly a part from Britain. And while the fare is more, you get more comfort - including toilets and a food trolley service. Communal cooking in Israel will never excite the gourmet, but the meals which are wheeled to the tables on stainless steel trolleys are balanced and filling. In their immaculate uniforms they go through safety procedures and tirelessly parade the aisles, pushing trolleys laden with drinks, meals and duty free. In the restaurant, walking, talking robot trolleys will move around serving drinks. Then, last week, the system would not operate at all, so the staff were stuck outside the block unable to return to duty - unable to get the food trolleys in, so the meals were served late. A smartly dressed waitress pushed a trolley to the table and loaded it promptly. Sebastian stood up and walked to a trolley of food that had been behind the door. It's a small, intimate restaurant with just a few tables, a sweet trolley parked prominently in the centre of the room when you arrive. Without missing a beat, another aide approached the table, wheeling a trolley heaped with food. Satine turns to a trolley with food and drink on it, and picks up a bottle of Champagne from the ice bucket. ‘Thanks for your help,’ Keira said sarcastically, as she grabbed a metal tray off the food trolley. One businessman was told there were too many people on board and they could not wheel trolleys with hot drinks as it was a safety hazard. Two of them will get an opportunity to accompany the drinks trolley during the match! A trolley is wheeled in from the kitchen, and any teachers that happen to be present at the time team together to dish out the meals. Prisoners are fed breakfast, lunch and dinner by wardens who come down the corridors with ready-cooked food on trolleys but many inmates prefer to make their own meals in the evening. Phrases off one's trolley informal Mad; insane. 〈英，非正式〉疯的；精神不正常的 Example sentencesExamples He is an ex-supermarket boss who is off his trolley. ‘I reckon you're off your trolley,’ she says with surprising insight. Haven't they noticed that she's off her trolley? Is it my imagination or have we all gone off our trolley? If, ten years ago, anyone had proposed that children in British schools should be taught in any other language than English they too would have been vilified and accused of being ‘off their trolley.’ People think I'm off my trolley but it's exhilarating. Then of course there are those who are quite literally off their trolley. First, to make sure I wasn't totally off my trolley, I sent an email to my fellow rocker, Michele. I just didn't expect him to be so totally off his trolley as he was that night. She said you'd think she's off her trolley if I told you. Synonyms severely mentally ill, mentally ill, insane, mad, certifiable, deranged, demented, of unsound mind, out of one's mind, not in one's right mind, not together, crazed, maniac, maniacal, lunatic, unbalanced, unhinged, unstable, disturbed, distracted, stark mad, manic, frenzied, raving, distraught, frantic, hysterical, delirious, mad as a hatter, mad as a march hare Origin Early 19th century: of dialect origin, perhaps from troll. noun.1 phr.
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