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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.
January 17, 2018
20 Comments
CinnamonTe1
1157
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.
CinnamonTe1
1157
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.
qviri
385
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