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/ˈmoʊtərɪst/ · /ˈməʊtərɪst/
someone who drives a car, especially when we are talking about car drivers as a group — in news reports, in road safety, or in rules about driving.
駕駛人；開車的人
複數 motorists
核心畫面
You can think of it as the word a news report or a road sign uses for 'people in cars': not this driver here, but drivers as a category — the ones the rules, the warnings and the traffic news are addressed to.
新聞主播或路邊告示牌口中的「開車的人」：不是指你眼前這位司機，而是把所有坐在方向盤後面的人當成一個群體來談。moto…更多收起
新聞主播或路邊告示牌口中的「開車的人」：不是指你眼前這位司機，而是把所有坐在方向盤後面的人當成一個群體來談。motor（馬達、汽車）加上 -ist（做某件事的人），字面就是「使用汽車的人」，但它帶著一股公共、正式的味道——會出現在交通報導、道路安全宣導、警方呼籲、保險條款裡。日常對話幾乎不會用它：你不會說 my brother is a motorist，你會說 he drives。原始詞典資料1 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。
motoristnoun/ˈməʊ.tə.ɹɪst/
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One who drives a motor vehicle.
- Moreover, the motorist, even if the speed at which he travelled enabled him to appreciate what he saw, does not see the country at all. What he does see is a tarred road, a couple of blackened or dust-covered hedges, and a stream of other motorists.
- In a poll released last week, the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety found that 58 percent of drivers consider other motorists talking on a cellphone to be a very serious threat and that 87 percent consider motorists e-mailing or texting to be such a threat.
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。