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A snowmobile is a small motor vehicle made for travelling over snow and ice. Instead of wheels it has a wide rubber belt at the back that turns and pushes it forward, and two ski-like runners at the front for steering.
A snowmobile snowmobile is a small motor vehicle made for travelling over snow and ice是一種專門設計來在雪地和冰面上行駛的小型動力車輛. Instead of wheels它不是用輪子 it has a wide rubber belt at the back that turns and pushes it forward而是後面有一條寬寬的橡膠履帶轉動推動它前進, and two ski-like runners at the front for steering前面則有兩根像雪橇一樣的滑板用來控制方向.
You sit on it like a motorcycle, with , and it usually carries one or two people.
You你 sit on it like a motorcycle坐在上面就像騎機車一樣, with handlebars用手把控制, and it usually carries one or two people通常可以載一到兩個人.
In places with long deep winters — Canada, the north of the United States, Finland, Russia, Hokkaido in Japan — snowmobiles are real transport: police, rescue teams, farmers and people living far from cleared roads all use them to get where a car simply cannot go. They are also a popular sport and a tourist activity; on a holiday in a snowy country you can pay to ride one across a frozen lake. They are loud and fast, and in some countries you need a licence.
In places with long deep winters在冬天又長又深的地方 — Canada, the north of the United States, Finland, Russia, Hokkaido in Japan加拿大、美國北部、芬蘭、俄羅斯、日本北海道 — snowmobiles雪上摩托車 are real transport是真正的交通工具: police, rescue teams, farmers and people living far from cleared roads警察、救難隊、農夫，還有住在沒有除雪道路很遠地方的人 all use them to get where a car simply cannot go都會用它去汽車完全到不了的地方. They它們 are also a popular sport and a tourist activity也是一項熱門的運動和觀光活動; on a holiday in a snowy country在下雪國家度假時 you can pay to ride one across a frozen lake可以付錢騎一輛橫越結冰的湖面. They它們 are loud and fast又吵又快, and in some countries在有些國家 you need a licence需要駕照.
Americans and Canadians often call one a sled or a Ski-Doo (a brand name, used the way people say a common brand instead of the real word). Snowmobile can also be a verb: to snowmobile is to travel around on one.
Americans and Canadians美國人和加拿大人 often call one a sled or a Ski-Doo常常把它叫做 sled 或 Ski-Doo (a brand name一個品牌名, used the way people say a common brand instead of the real word用法就像大家用一個常見品牌名代替本來的字一樣). Snowmobile Snowmobile can also be a verb也可以當動詞: to snowmobile去 snowmobile is to travel around on one就是騎著它到處跑.
組成snow + mobile. mobile here means "something that moves / a moving machine", from Latin movere, to move — the same -mobile that gives us automobile. So: a snow-moving machine, built on the pattern of automobile.
同家族的字
- automobilesame -mobile from Latin movere, to move — auto- means 'by itself'
- mobilethe same word standing alone: able to move
- movealso from Latin movere
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。
snowmobilenoun
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transportvehiclesA vehicle with skis at the front and a caterpillar track at the rear, used for travelling over snow, sometimes as sport.
- From the manufacture of snowgoing equipment such as snow cats, it diversified first into that of snowmobiles (and later skidoos, or water scooters), then into railcar and locomotive manufacture, and finally into the manufacture of small (less than 100-seat) commercial aircraft.
- Lance Allan: "When you first saw that video of you in a snowmobile suit at five years old on national TV and on our air. Were you a little bit like, c'mon Mom and Dad, are you going to do me like that?"
snowmobileverb
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To ride or race in a snowmobile.
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。