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A coachbuilder is a person or a firm that builds the outer body of a vehicle — the shell you see, the doors, the roof — rather than the engine or the frame underneath. The “coach” here is the old word for a carriage, the kind horses pulled, and then for the body of a car. In the early days of cars, one company might make the chassis (the bones and the engine) and a coachbuilder would put a special body on top: a long elegant car, a hearse, an open-top car. You still hear coachbuilt for a car whose body was made that way, often by hand and at high cost. Though actually this is not a sports coach, and it is not someone who “builds” a team. It is a craft job from the carriage trade that moved into cars.
車身打造師傅、車體廠。這裡的 coach 是馬車/車身,不是運動教練。
組成coach (the carriage, later the car body) + builder (someone who builds)
同家族的字
- builderthe second half: a person who builds
- coachworkthe body of the car that a coachbuilder makes
- coachbuiltdescribes a car whose body was made this way
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。
coachbuildernoun
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historicalA builder of horse-drawn coaches.
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A person or company who makes and fits the bodywork of vehicles such as cars, buses, and railway carriages.
- The bus has been stripped down and coachbuilders, mechanics and upholsterers have been rebuilding the chassis, fittings and engine. "Home straight for bus restoration", BBC News
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A person or company who makes and fits the bodywork of vehicles such as cars, buses, and railway carriages.
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。