a road vehicle, typically with four wheels, powered by an internal-combustion engine and able to carry a small number of people 汽车 we're going by car. 我们坐汽车去。 [as modifier]a car crash. 一次车祸。 ■a railway carriage, especially one of a specified kind (尤指某种)火车车厢 the first-class cars. 头等火车车厢。 ■(N. Amer.)any railway carriage or wagon (北美)火车车厢;货车 a railroad car. 一列货车。 ■the passenger compartment of a lift, cableway, or balloon (电梯的)梯厢;(索道或气球的)吊舱 ■(poetic/literary)a chariot (诗/文)战车
派生 carful ( pl. -fuls) noun(pl. -fuls) 语源
late Middle English (in the general sense 'wheeled vehicle'): from Old Northern French carre, based on Latin carrum, carrus, of Celtic origin