- 1迷你圓環（英國常見：地上畫的小白圈。台灣口語的「圓環」是路口；「環島」則是繞台灣一圈，別混）
A mini- is a very small : several roads meet, and in the middle there is a white circle painted on the ground, not a big raised island with plants. Drivers must go around that circle in one direction only, as they would at a larger . They are common in Britain on quiet streets where there is not enough room for a full . In Taiwan you already know 圓環; this is the little painted kind. Because the circle is only paint, some drivers roll straight over it — the rule is still to go around. It is a driving / traffic word. Though actually, “” can also mean “not saying something in a direct way”; here it is only the road.
From the word’s history
From mini- + roundabout.
由 mini- 加 roundabout「圓環」構成。
組成mini-（迷你、小型的）+ roundabout（圓環）
同家族的字
- roundaboutthe larger junction this is a small version of
- minibusshares the mini- prefix meaning small
原始詞典資料1 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。
mini-roundaboutnoun
- 1
A small roundabout that is either flush to the road surface (painted on) or slightly raised.
- Williton has a mini-roundabout for a town centre. At this mini-roundabout the traffic coming from Taunton turns left and heads straight out of town towards Minehead, passing between displays of agricultural machinery on a bank up on the left and a red stone police station recessed on the right.
- Although traffic is advised not to carry out U-turn manoeuvres at a mini-roundabout, be alert for any oncoming traffic doing so.
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。