第九节

Car

Basic need

音形义

Everyday Expressions

n. [C] 小汽车 (美语中也用 automobile)

He goes to school by car.

n. 车厢 (美语中也用carriage)

Cafe cars are operated on trains by the Railways. (列车上有吸烟休息室的餐车由铁道部门经营。)

n. 其他车辆

I go to work by street car every day. (有轨电车)

车身--- body

轮胎--- tire(British English: tyre)

前灯--- headlight

方向灯--- turn signal

保险杠--- bumper

引擎盖--- hood

方向盘--- steering wheel

后视镜--- rearview mirror

行李箱--- trunk

挡风玻璃--- windshield

发动机；引擎 --- engine

变速箱--- transmission

离合器 --- clutch

仪表盘 --- dash board

跑车--- coupe（2 door sporty car）

轿车--- sedan（4 door family car）

三排以上座位的豪华车--- limonsine

敞篷车--- convertible

吉普类车---SUV (sport utility vehicle)

刹车--- brake

防死刹车系统--- ABS (Anti-lock brake system)

车牌--- license plate

常见搭配 Useful Phrases

晕车 --- car sickness

缆车 --- a cable car

车祸 --- car accident (短时间的)

停车场 --- car park

车费 --- car fare

习语与俗语 Idioms & Slangs

car pool(ing) --- 为了节省parking space, 几人共同使用一辆车

car jack --- 在车中强行抢车

生活用语 Street Talks

A: Can I borrow your car tonight?

B: Just make sure you don't wreck it.

A: Nancy, you want to go to a movie now?

B: Sorry, I can't leave now. I'm car pooling today

电影对白 Transcripts

句型 Do you have a patrol car in the vicinity of twelve hundred Glenview Road? 《毕业生》

Did the dry cleaners have your car? 《情归巴黎》

I was just taking her hand, to help her out of a car. 《西雅图夜未眠》

The car is down this way. 《西雅图夜未眠》

Please do not leave your car unattended. 《毕业生》

对话 Mr. Carlson: Is that the new car out there? The little red Wop job?

Mr. Braddock: That's Ben's graduation present. 《毕业生》

Mrs. Robinson: We'd go to his car.

Ben: Oh no. In the car you did it?

Mrs. Robinson: I don't think we were the first.

Ben: What kind of car was it?

Mrs. Robinson: What?

Ben: Do you remember the make of the car?

Mrs. Robinson: Oh my God.

Ben: Really. I want to know.

Mrs. Robinson: It was a Ford, Benjamin. 《毕业生》.

名言 Quotations

I don't even like old cars ... I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.

J. D. Salinger (b. 1919), U.S. author. Holden Caulfield, in The Catcher in the Rye, ch. 17 (1951).
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