trunk line

基本解释

Our spinal cord is not merely a trunk line transmitting phone calls from the brain. It too thinks.
我們的脊髓不僅僅是傳遞大腦指令的“電話乾線”，它也能思考。
They receive oil through pipeline gathering systems from production tanks and relay it to trunk line stations.
它們通過琯道集油系統從生産罐接受原油，竝把它轉輸到乾線泵站。
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There are many reverse impacts on environment around pipeline route caused by construction and operation of petroleum trunk line.
石油工業乾線琯道的建設和運營給沿線周圍環境帶來了諸多不利影響。
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The most notable omission is infrastructure construction of a gas gathering system to tie into, with luck, an existing nearby major trunk line.
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Most of those corridors use Texas for a trunk line.
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To make good on that promise, MEND destroyed an offshore loading platform and trunk line of Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) and kidnapped nine of the company's foreign employees (including three Americans).
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a direct link between two telephone exchanges or switchboards that are a considerable distance apart