喜樂美語
  1. 1減速彎、S 形彎（賽車；一般馬路為了讓車慢下來也會做）

    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. 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.

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，摘錄並精簡格式，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

  • 1

    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

  • 1

    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/

  • 1

    A quibble, a pedantic or dishonest objection; an act of deception.

  • 2

    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.’
  • 3

    bridgecard-gamesgamesThe holding of a hand without trumps, or the hand itself.

  • 4

    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.
  • 5

    roadtransportA raised area or other obstacle around which vehicles must drive, especially designed to reduce speed.

chicaneverb/ʃɪˈkeɪn/

  • 1

    To use chicanery, tricks, or subterfuge.

  • 2

    To deceive.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。