trunk line

基本解释

Our spinal cord is not merely a trunk line transmitting phone calls from the brain. It too thinks.
我们的脊髓不仅仅是传递大脑指令的“电话干线”，它也能思考。
They receive oil through pipeline gathering systems from production tanks and relay it to trunk line stations.
它们通过管道集油系统从生产罐接受原油，并把它转输到干线泵站。
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There are many reverse impacts on environment around pipeline route caused by construction and operation of petroleum trunk line.
石油工业干线管道的建设和运营给沿线周围环境带来了诸多不利影响。
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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