- 1nA2
/ˈɔːtəmoʊbiːl/ · /ˈɔːtəməbiːl/
A car that people drive on roads; a more formal or American word for car.
汽車
複數 automobiles
核心畫面
Picture the same object as car, but seen through a more official window: a company report, a museum sign, a news headline about the industry. Automobile points at exactly the thing you would call a car in conversation — the choice of word tells you about the setting, not about the vehicle.
可以想成：眼前是同一台車，只是你透過比較正式的窗口在看它——公司年報、博物館的說明牌、產業新聞的標題。automob…更多收起
可以想成：眼前是同一台車，只是你透過比較正式的窗口在看它——公司年報、博物館的說明牌、產業新聞的標題。automobile 指的東西跟 car 完全一樣，差別在場合：換這個字，透露的是文章的正式度，而不是那台車有什麼不同。原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
automobilenoun/ˈɔː.tə.məˌbiːl/
- 1
A type of motor vehicle designed to move on the ground under its own stored power and intended to carry a driver, a small number of additional passengers, and a very limited amount of other load.
- Meronym: see list of auto parts
- Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident.
automobileverb/ˈɔː.tə.məˌbiːl/
- 1
datedTo travel by automobile.
- The misguided youngsters are yachting, attending the races, playing the "stage Johnny," automobiling, playing poker for high stakes, overliving at home, on expensive shopping tours, attending box parties to the theatre, visiting high-priced restaurants, etc., etc.
automobileadj/ˈɔː.tə.məˌbiːl/
- 1
Self-moving; self-propelled.
- As early as 1898 I proposed to representatives of a large manufacturing concern the construction and public exhibition of an automobile carriage which, left to itself, would perform a great variety of operations involving something akin to judgment.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。