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A chicane is an S-shaped bend built into a straight road, especially on a track for racing cars, so that drivers must slow down. You hear it all the time in motor-race talk: they brake for the chicane, then speed up again. Towns also put a chicane into a street to calm traffic — same idea, less speed.
"A chicane"Chicane"is an S-shaped bend built into a straight road"是在直路上做出的S形彎道，"especially on a track for racing cars"特別常見於賽車跑道上，"so that drivers must slow down"目的是讓駕駛必須減速。"You hear it all the time in motor-race talk"在賽車轉播裡你會一直聽到這個字："they brake for the chicane, then speed up again"他們為了chicane彎道煞車，然後再加速。"Towns also put a chicane into a street to calm traffic"城鎮也會在道路上做chicane彎道來讓車流變慢——"same idea, less speed"概念一樣，就是要車速變慢。
It is a sport and driving word, said as a matter of fact, not a poetry word. Though actually, English borrowed it from French chicane, a word that already had a smell of wriggling and trickery; that older sense is why we also have . If you meet chicane today, it is almost always the bend in the road, not a trick.
"It is a sport and driving word, said as a matter of fact"這是一個運動和開車用語，講的時候很平實，"not a poetry word"不是詩意的字。"Though actually, English borrowed it from French chicane"不過事實上，英文是從法文chicane借來的，"a word that already had a smell of wriggling and trickery"這個字原本就帶點狡辯、耍花招的味道；"that older sense is why we also have chicanery"這個較舊的意思，也是為什麼我們還有chicanery狡辯、詭計這個字。"If you meet chicane today"如果你今天遇到chicane這個字，"it is almost always the bend in the road, not a trick"幾乎都是指路上的彎道，而不是指詭計。
組成Borrowed from French chicane, as a noun and as a verb.
同家族的字
- chicanerythe noun for sly trickery, from the same French family
原始詞典資料9 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。
Chicaneadj
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Chicana or Chicano, and of any gender, or of non-binary gender.
- ... Latine and Chicane workers and families, […]
- ... Chicane/Latine, and Asian communities. During the course of two centuries, forty-one states institutionalized anti-miscegenation laws. All these states prohibited any intermarriages with Black people, fourteen states banned white-Asian[…]
Chicanenoun
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A Chicana or Chicano of any gender, or of non-binary gender.
- […] Chicanes and Latines that continue to reproduce geographies of domination and exclusion. It strikes me that while Chicanes […]
chicanenoun/ʃɪˈkeɪn/
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A quibble, a pedantic or dishonest objection; an act of deception.
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The use of dishonest means or subterfuge to achieve one's (especially political) goals; chicanery, trickery.
- 1775, Edmund Burke, speech on conciliation with America In this character of the Americans, a love of freedom is the predominating feature which marks and distinguishes the whole; and as an ardent is always a jealous affection, your Colonies become suspicious, restive, and untractable whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for.
- ‘That they may be unlearned in the detestable chicane of politics, is certain; but, they are also uncorrupted by the odious and pernicious maxims of the unfeeling tools of despotism.’
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bridgecard-gamesgamesThe holding of a hand without trumps, or the hand itself.
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hobbieslifestylemotor-racingA sharp double bend on a racecourse, designed to prevent unsafe speeds; an obstacle creating a curve.
- On lap 23, Hamilton got a run on Leclerc into the second chicane after the two had overtaken Nico Hulkenberg's out-of-stop-sequence Renault down the main straight.
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roadtransportA raised area or other obstacle around which vehicles must drive, especially designed to reduce speed.
chicaneverb/ʃɪˈkeɪn/
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To use chicanery, tricks, or subterfuge.
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To deceive.
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。