- 1n/ˌrəʊlz ˈrɔɪs/luxury car勞斯萊斯
A very expensive and very comfortable car made by a British company. English speakers often name it as the example of a costly car.
Rolls-Royce 是英國製造的高級轎車。它的重點是貴，而且坐起來非常安靜舒服。在英文裡講到「最貴的車」，很多人第一個想到的就是它。中文就叫「勞斯萊斯」。它是可數名詞，可以說 a Rolls-Royce、two Rolls-Royces。口語常常簡稱 a Rolls。寫的時候中間要有連字號。
示範例句 · Example
A black Rolls-Royce pulled up outside the hotel and everyone turned to look.
中文翻譯一輛黑色的勞斯萊斯停在飯店外面，每個人都轉頭去看。
A Rolls-Royce is a car, and it is countable: one Rolls-Royce, two Rolls-Royces. What makes the word do extra work is that everyone is expected to know what it stands for — money, quiet comfort, being driven rather than driving. That shared knowledge is what lets the name be used later as a measure of quality. In speech people often shorten it to a Rolls.
常見搭配
a black Rolls-Royce
一輛黑色的勞斯萊斯
the classic picture of the car
A black Rolls-Royce waited at the door.
drive a Rolls-Royce
開勞斯萊斯
to own and use one of these cars
He drives a Rolls-Royce but lives very simply.
in the back of a Rolls-Royce
坐在勞斯萊斯的後座
in the passenger seat, being driven
She arrived in the back of a Rolls-Royce.
意思相近
Rollsluxury carlimousine
- 2n/ˌrəʊlz ˈrɔɪs/the Rolls-Royce of something頂級中的頂級
口語Used in the phrase the Rolls-Royce of something to say that a thing is the finest of its kind — the one everything else in that group is measured against.
the Rolls-Royce of something 是拿這台車來打比方。意思是「同類裡面最頂級的那一個」。例如 the Rolls-Royce of coffee，就是咖啡裡的頂規。後面接的是一整類東西，不是某個品牌。來源標示這是英式口語的說法，語氣常常帶點誇張和讚嘆。中文可以說「⋯⋯界的勞斯萊斯」。
The meaning belongs to the whole phrase. It works by borrowing what the car stands for and lending it to something else, so the speaker never has to explain what makes the thing good — the name does that. What follows of is a whole category, not a brand: the Rolls-Royce of coffee, of running shoes, of office printers. The source marks this use as informal and chiefly British, and it usually sounds a little playful.
常見搭配
the Rolls-Royce of something
某一類東西裡最頂級的
the finest example of a whole type of thing
It is the Rolls-Royce of sewing machines.
call something the Rolls-Royce of
把某樣東西稱為某界的勞斯萊斯
to describe something as the best of its kind
Reviewers called it the Rolls-Royce of cameras.
意思相近
the best of its kindthe gold standardthe top of the range
意思相反
the cheapest optionthe bottom of the range
原始詞典資料3 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。
Rolls-Roycename
- 1
Any of several British companies that make motor cars, aero engines, etc.
Rolls-Roycenoun
- 1
A car made by this manufacturer.
- ‘What is the most expensive car?’ she had once asked Stan. ‘A cad – Cadillac or a Rolls,’ Stan had said, and sometimes Raoul had a Cadillac, sometimes a Rolls-Royce.
- And she pondered the first of Miss Seeton’s sketches, the one Delphick had been coerced into showing her: the sleek cat reflected in the mirror, with the ram—the ram from the wrong, confusing case—beneath it on the bonnet of the Rolls-Royce in which Ferencz Szabo, of the Stentorian voice, rode so proudly.
- 2
informalAnything that is the best of its type; the best quality product possible.
- the Rolls-Royce of chocolate
- But for an aspiring animation cartoonist, getting a job at Walt Disney was like hitting the major leagues—the Rolls Royce of animation. Now here we were walking down Dopey Drive and making a right at Mickey Avenue.
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