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    A cartload is how much a cart can hold — a cart being the old wagon a horse or a person pulls, not a car and not (in the first meaning) a supermarket trolley. So a cartload of hay or wood is the load that fills one of those wagons. People also stretch it, the way they stretch truckload: a cartload of papers can just mean a lot of papers, with no cart in sight. That looser use is informal. The literal use sounds a little old now; you meet it in farms, history, and stories more than in city talk, where truckload or often does the same job.

    一車的量;滿滿一車

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組成cart (the wagon) + load (what it carries). From Middle English cartlode, cartelode.

同家族的字

  • cartthe wagon in the first half
  • loadthe amount in the second half
  • truckloadsame pattern, with a truck
  • boatloadsame pattern, with a boat

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。

cartloadnoun/ˈkɑːt.ləʊd/

  • 1

    The amount that a cart can carry.

    • Two days of skirmishing outside the town were followed by a bold sortie headed by a dervish; and, as the result of this affair, a cartload of heads was sent as trophies to Constantinople.
    • The youngster put some cartloads of food into his bag and set out again.
  • 2

    Any large amount.

    • . . . although a little apt to get buried under a cartload of written pleadings, . . .
  • 3

    historicalA load: various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities.

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