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A vehicle for passengers that runs on electricity along metal rails set into the road, sharing the street with cars and people rather than having a railway line of its own. Power usually comes from a wire overhead.
A vehicle for passengers一種載客的交通工具 that runs on electricity靠電力行駛，along metal rails set into the road沿著嵌在路面裡的鐵軌走，sharing the street with cars and people跟汽車、行人共用馬路，rather than having a railway line of its own而不是有自己專屬的鐵路線。Power電力 usually comes from a wire overhead通常是從頭頂上的電線來的。
This is the American word. In Britain and Australia the same thing is called a , and in Hong Kong you will hear "" too — so which word you use depends entirely on where you are, not on the vehicle.
This這 is the American word是美式說法。In Britain and Australia在英國和澳洲，the same thing同樣的東西 is called a tram叫做 tram，and而 in Hong Kong在香港 you will hear "tram" too你也會聽到 "tram" 這個字——so所以 which word you use用哪個字 depends entirely on where you are完全看你人在哪裡，not on the vehicle而不是看車子本身。
American cities that still run them include New Orleans, San Francisco, Toronto (Canada), and Portland. For many the word first appears through the famous play "A Streetcar Named Desire" — Desire was the name of a real streetcar route in New Orleans.
American cities還有美國城市 that still run them現在還在跑這種車的 include包括 New Orleans紐奧良、San Francisco舊金山、Toronto (Canada)（加拿大的）多倫多、and和 Portland波特蘭。For many learners對很多學英文的人來說，the word first appears through the famous play "A Streetcar Named Desire"這個字最先是從有名的劇本《慾望街車》裡看到的——Desire「Desire」（慾望） was the name of a real streetcar route in New Orleans原本是紐奧良一條真實的路面電車路線名稱。
Something to notice: streetcars had almost died out in the United States by the 1960s, and are now coming back in new city centres, so the word can sound old-fashioned and modern at the same time depending on the sentence.
Something to notice有一點值得注意：streetcars路面電車 had almost died out in the United States by the 1960s到一九六〇年代時在美國幾乎已經消失了，and而 are now coming back in new city centres現在又在新的市中心重新出現，so所以 the word這個字 can sound old-fashioned and modern at the same time可以同時聽起來既老派又新潮，depending on the sentence要看句子而定。
Written as one word. The place you wait is a streetcar stop.
Written as one word寫成一個字。The place you wait你等車的地方 is a streetcar stop叫做 streetcar stop。
組成street + car. The name was made before petrol cars existed, so "car" there means a carriage on rails — the point of "street" was that these rails ran in the public road, mixed in with horses and walkers, instead of on a railway of their own.
同家族的字
- streetlightshares street
- street-smartshares street
- cable carshares car in the same old sense of a carriage that is pulled or drawn
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。
streetcarnoun/ˈstɹitˌkɑɹ/
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A tram or light rail vehicle, usually a single car but sometimes multiple cars attached together, operating on city streets; a trolley car.
- Here, outside, in the light and the shade and the heat, there was a great tinkling of the bells of innumerable streetcars, and a constant strolling and shuffling and rustling of many pedestrians, a large proportion of whom were young women in Pompadour-looking dresses.
- Tired as he felt at night, and dark and bitter cold as it was in the morning, Jurgis generally chose to walk; at the hours other workmen were traveling, the streetcar monopoly saw fit to put on so few cars that there would be men hanging to every foot of the backs of them and often crouching upon the snow-covered roof.
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。