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A perambulator is a : a small carriage for a baby, with wheels, that you push. This is a British word, and even in Britain the full form sounds old and a bit grand. Most people say , which is simply a short form of perambulator, or they say or buggy for the more upright kind you see in the street. Americans say baby carriage or . Though actually, the name comes from the idea of “walking around” with the baby — the machine does the walking for you. You will mainly see the long word on old labels, in old stories, or in very formal writing, not on a shop sign today.
嬰兒車（英式舊稱；英國口語多說 pram）
組成perambulate + -or (the one that does the action).
同家族的字
- perambulatethe verb; this is the -or “one that does it” form
- pramthe everyday British short form of perambulator
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。
perambulatornoun/pəˈɹæm.bjʊ.leɪ.təɹ/
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datedA baby carriage.
- The reapers were slowly trooping back to their work. The nurse-girl slapped one of her charges and then began to push the perambulator up the hill.
- "That will be all this afternoon," he said to the nurse, who got up with the baby and decanted it into a perambulator which was standing in the fairway.
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One who perambulates.
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A surveyor's instrument for measuring distances, consisting of a wheel that rolls over the ground, along with a clockwork apparatus and a dial plate upon which the distance travelled is shown by an index.
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。