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/ˈmoʊtərˌsaɪkəl/ · /ˈməʊtəˌsaɪkəl/
A fast vehicle with two wheels and an engine that you sit on and ride.
機車
複數 motorcycles
核心畫面
Picture a bicycle that has been given an engine: still two wheels in a line, still a seat you sit astride and you steer with, but now the power comes from a motor between your knees instead of from your legs. You lean it into corners, you feel the road and the wind, and it can run as fast as a car. The word says exactly what it shows — motor plus cycle, a two-wheeler with an engine — and that single picture is the whole of it.
可以想成一台被裝上引擎的腳踏車：一樣是前後兩個輪子、一樣跨坐在座墊上、一樣用把手轉方向，但推著它走的不再是你的腿，而…更多收起
可以想成一台被裝上引擎的腳踏車：一樣是前後兩個輪子、一樣跨坐在座墊上、一樣用把手轉方向，但推著它走的不再是你的腿，而是膝蓋中間那顆引擎。轉彎時整台車跟著人一起傾，風和路面都直接打在身上，速度可以跟汽車一樣快。這個字的長相就是它的意思——motor（引擎）加上 cycle（兩輪車），畫面就這一個。原始詞典資料2 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。
motorcyclenoun/ˈməʊʔəˌsaɪkl̩/
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An open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel, and having two (or sometimes three) wheels.
- Her big mission is to recover the precious Blue Star (a glowing rock in a box), which leads to a Western shoot-out, a space-age motorcycle gang, and an unamusing Darth Vader-esque villain.
- That last problem did intrude on Hazzard’s roamings, and when she refers to the living city it is with periodic references to thefts of cars and wallets, with a warning not to carry anything “snatchable” by the thieves on motorcycles who whiz through the streets. Her husband, Francis Steegmuller, the critic, translator and biographer who died in 1994, had a bag snatched, and while he lost only a guidebook, he was badly injured as he held on to it and was dragged behind the attacking motorcycle.
motorcycleverb/ˈməʊʔəˌsaɪkl̩/
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To ride a motorcycle.
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。