- 1n/mɝk/ · /mɜːk/Mercedes-Benz賓士車
口語A short, casual name for a Mercedes-Benz car. The sources mark it informal slang, used most in Britain and other Commonwealth countries.
「Merc」是 Mercedes-Benz 的口語簡稱。英文很習慣把長名字切短來講，這就是其中一個。因為來自品牌名，開頭通常大寫。它很隨意，廣告、報導或賣車的網頁還是會寫全名。來源標示這個用法在英國和大英國協地區最常見。同樣的拼法在美式英文裡指的是另一種車，要看場合分辨。
示範例句 · Example
His neighbour just bought a second-hand Merc.
中文翻譯他的鄰居剛買了一台二手的賓士。
English often cuts a long name down to its first sound, and this is one of those cuts. Because it is a clipping of a brand name it usually keeps its capital M. It belongs to speech among people who already know what you mean; an advert, a report or a sales listing would write Mercedes-Benz in full. The same spelling is used in American English for a different car, so the country you are in tells you which one is meant.
常見搭配
drive a Merc
開賓士
to own and drive a Mercedes-Benz
She drives an old Merc she bought from her father.
a second-hand Merc
一台二手賓士
a used Mercedes-Benz
A second-hand Merc was still more than they wanted to pay.
- 2n/mɝk/ · /mɜːk/Ford Mercury水星牌汽車
口語In American English, a casual name for a Mercury, a car made by Ford. The sources mark this use as dated, and you meet it mostly in talk about older cars.
「Merc」在美式口語裡是福特 Mercury 車的簡稱。來源把這個用法標成 dated，也就是有年代感。它多半出現在老車、經典車的話題裡，常跟年份一起講，例如 a '49 Merc 就是一台 1949 年的 Mercury。同樣的拼法在英國指的是賓士。看說話的人在哪裡，就知道是哪一種車。
The cut is the same as with the other car: take the long name, keep the front. What is different is the country and the time. Mercury cars belong to an earlier period of American driving, so the word usually turns up beside a year — a '49 Merc — in car talk, songs and older stories. A British speaker using the same sound almost always means a Mercedes.
常見搭配
a '49 Merc
一台一九四九年的水星車
a Mercury car from 1949
He restored a '49 Merc in his garage.
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