1. 1腳踏車(英式口語,用來跟機車區分;台灣也說單車。中國大陸較常說自行車)

    A push-bike is a bicycle — the kind you move with your legs, not with a motor. The name is mainly British, and a little informal. People say it when they want to be extra clear they do not mean a or a scooter: “I came on my push-bike.” You push the pedals (and, at a crossing, you may even push the bike along with your hands), so the first half of the word is a small joke as well as a description. In American English you almost never hear it; people just say bike or bicycle. Though actually, even in Britain, bike by itself often already means the pedal kind unless the talk is clearly about . Push-bike is the careful, contrast word. It is not a special machine — just an ordinary bicycle with a British nickname.

    「push-bike」就是腳踏車,靠腿踩踏板前進,不是靠馬達的車子。這個說法主要是英式的,有點口語,常用來特別講清楚不是機車或電動車,例如「I came on my push-bike.」。前半的 push 有點玩笑的意味,踩踏板,有時過路口還得用手推著走。

    美式英文幾乎聽不到,大家通常說 bike 或 bicycle。就算在英國,bike 單獨使用通常也已經指腳踏車,除非談的是摩托車。push-bike 是特別區分用的說法,其實就是一般的腳踏車,多了一個英式的暱稱。台灣日常多說腳踏車或單車。

組成A compound: push + bike. Bike is short for bicycle. Push marks “no motor” — you move it with your body.

同家族的字

  • pushthe first half of the compound
  • bikeshort for bicycle
  • motorbikethe motor kind this word is meant to stand against

原始詞典資料2 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。

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

  • pushbike

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。