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- "地铁站在酒店的旁边。"
"地铁站在酒店的旁边。"
Translation:The subway station is next to the hotel.
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The "train station" and "subway station" are synonymous in American English. A subway is an underground train, but still a train after all. "The train station is next to the hotel", should have been accepted.
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They are synonymous in all American cities with subways. A train that runs over your head or under your feet is still a train no matter what name a city chooses to call it.
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They're not exactly synonymous, one's a hypernym of the other. All subway stations are train stations but not all train stations are subway stations.
To give an example, if you say that the hotel is next to the Buffalo Depew train station, tourists expecting subway departures every 5-10 minutes are going to be rather disappointed
The hotel is next to the subway station is not the same as the subway station is next to the hotel?
No, not when you're translating (though conversationally, the meaning is the same).
near is 斤。 旁边 literally means lateral to, side (can be used in a sentence like "I want you to stay by my side.), to the side of, and beside, which all mean next to. It does not mean near.
Just to clarify, the character for "near" is "近", not "斤" The latter is a unit of weight. But your explanation is correct.
Translation: The subway station is next to the hotel. The train station is beside the hotel. What is the difference?
