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A landau is an old kind of horse carriage with four wheels and a roof that folds back, so the people inside can ride covered or open to the sky. The roof is the special part: it comes in two halves that fold away from the middle, not like a simple one-piece hood.
A landau islandau是 an old kind of horse carriage with four wheels and a roof that folds back一種有四個輪子、車頂可以往後摺的舊式馬車 so the people inside can ride covered or open to the sky所以車裡的人可以選擇有頂遮著，或敞開對著天空 The roof is the special part特別的地方就在車頂 it comes in two halves that fold away from the middle它分成兩半，從中間往兩邊摺 not like a simple one-piece hood不像簡單的一整片車篷
You mostly meet the word in history, costume dramas, and royal parades — Britain still brings landaus out for weddings and state days — not in ordinary street talk. It feels formal and a bit antique.
You mostly meet the word你大多會在這些地方看到這個字 in history, costume dramas, and royal parades歷史、古裝劇，還有皇室遊行裡 Britain still brings landaus out for weddings and state days英國到現在婚禮和國家慶典還會用landau not in ordinary street talk平常在街上講話不會用到 It feels formal and a bit antique這個字感覺正式又有點古老
Later, car makers borrowed the look and even stuck fake ‘landau bars’ on the sides of cars to remind people of those folding hinges; that is a styling echo, not a horse carriage.
Later後來 car makers borrowed the look汽車製造商借用了這個外觀 and even stuck fake 'landau bars' on the sides of cars甚至在車身側面裝上假的「landau bars」 to remind people of those folding hinges讓人想起那些摺疊的鉸鏈 that is a styling echo, not a horse carriage這只是造型上的呼應，不是真的馬車
Do not picture a modern convertible and stop there: a landau is first a horse-drawn coach, and a rather grand one.
Do not picture a modern convertible and stop there不要只想到現代的敞篷車就停在那裡 a landau is first a horse-drawn coachlandau首先是一種馬拉的車 and a rather grand one而且是相當氣派的那種
組成Named after Landau, a city in Germany, where this style of carriage was first made. German has Landauer for the same kind of coach.
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。
Landauname/ˈlændaʊ/
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A surname.
landaunoun/ˈlæn.dɔː/
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A type of lightweight, four-wheeled carriage in which the front and back passenger seats face each other.
- Indeed, as the two gentlemen reached the door, a landau drove up, a magnificent yellow carriage, lined with brocade or satin of a faint cream colour, drawn by wonderful grey horses, with flaming ribbons, and harness blazing all over with crests: no less than three of these heraldic emblems surmounted the coats-of-arms on the panels, and these shields contained a prodigious number of quarterings, betokening the antiquity and splendour of the house of Clavering and Snell.
- On an early winter afternoon, clear but not cold, when the vegetable world was a weird multitude of skeletons through whose ribs the sun shone freely, a gleaming landau came to a pause on the crest of a hill in Wessex.
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A style of automobile based around the design of landau 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。