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形容詞

short-distance (comparative shorter-distance, superlative shortest-distance)

1. Relating to travel between places relatively close together.

   Antonym: long-distance

   • 1955 January, R. S. McNaught, “From the Severn to the Mersey by Great Western”, in Railway Magazine, page 18:

     I suppose that nowadays the red-faced farmers, whose invariable topic (so a friendly guard who understood Welsh told me) was sheep and their prices, find their own cars or the buses more convenient than a Western Region main line for their short-distance peregrinations to market.

   • 1962 June, “Letters to the Editor: Diesel suburban services in Bristol”, in Modern Railways, page 430:

     Short-distance rail travel in this district has been a doubtful proposition ever since buses were introduced.

   • 2023 June 14, Mel Holley, “Network News: One year on: rail strikes still at a stalemate”, in RAIL, number 985, page 11:

     The PM hit the headlines again for taking short-distance air travel rather than rail.