car
英 [kɑː]
美 [kɑr]
- n. 汽車；車廂
- n. (Car)人名；(土)賈爾；(法、西)卡爾；(塞)察爾
助記提示
1. car 原被音譯為“卡、卡車”，後來卡車含義縮小為專指“載貨汽車”，於是就變成了 truck 的含義， 而 car 則用以泛指各種汽車。
中文詞源
car 汽車來自詞根cur, 跑，詞源同current, chariot。
英文詞源
- car
- car: [14] Car seems first to have been used as an independent term for a road vehicle powered by an internal-combustion engine in 1896, in the publication Farman’s Auto-Cars (the compounds autocar and motorcar are a year earlier). But the word is of course of far longer standing as a general term for a wheeled conveyance. It comes ultimately from an unrecorded Celtic *karros, via Latin carrus ‘two-wheeled wagon’, Vulgar Latin *carra, and Anglo-Norman carre or car; it is probably linked with current and course, giving an underlying meaning ‘move swiftly’.
English words derived at some point or other from the same source include career, carriage, carry, charge, and chariot.
=> career, caricature, carriage, carry, charge, chariot, course, current - car (n.)
- c. 1300, "wheeled vehicle," from Anglo-French carre, Old North French carre, from Vulgar Latin *carra, related to Latin carrum, carrus (plural carra), originally "two-wheeled Celtic war chariot," from Gaulish karros, a Celtic word (compare Old Irish and Welsh carr "cart, wagon," Breton karr "chariot"), from PIE *krsos, from root *kers- "to run" (see current (adj.)).
"From 16th to 19th c. chiefly poetic, with associations of dignity, solemnity, or splendour ..." [OED]. Used in U.S. by 1826 of railway freight carriages and of passenger coaches on a railway by 1830; by 1862 of a streetcar or tramway car. Extension to "automobile" is by 1896, but from 1831 to the first decade of 20c. the cars meant "railroad train." Car bomb first 1972, in reference to Northern Ireland. The Latin word also is the source of Italian and Spanish carro, French char.
雙語例句
- 1. He slewed the car against the side of the building.
- 他的車滑到了大樓的一側，抵住了。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. If you build more plastics into cars, the car lasts longer.
- 如果汽車采用更多塑料元件，壽命會更長一些。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. Their first car rolls off the production line on December 16.
- 他們的第一輛車於12月16日下線。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. Driving a boat is not the same as driving a car.
- 駕船和開車不是一回事。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. Check the oil at regular intervals, and have the car serviced regularly.
- 定期檢查汽油，並對車輛進行定期維護。
來自柯林斯例句