vehicle

vehicle
noun
  1. a thing used for transporting people or goods, especially on land, such as a car, lorry, or cart
    交通工具(如汽车、卡车、大车)
  2. a thing used to express, embody, or fulfil something
    (表达、体现或完成的工具)手段,方法,载体
    I use paint as a vehicle for my ideas.
    我用色彩表达思想。
    ■a substance that facilitates the use of a drug, pigment, or other material mixed with it
    展色剂,调漆料
    ■a privately controlled company through which an individual or organization conducts a particular kind of business, especially investment
    (个人,组织从事经营、尤指投资的)公司
    ■a film, television programme, song, etc. that is intended to display the leading performer to the best advantage
    (为展露主演者才华)度身定制的创作(影、视、歌等)
派生
vehicular
[vɪˈhɪkjʊlə]
adjective
  1. (一般用于义项 1)
语源
  1. early 17th cent.: from French véhicule or Latin vehiculum, from vehere 'carry'
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