- 1路面電車、電車（美式說法；英式和台灣人比較熟的是 tram，香港的「叮叮車」就是這種）
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. 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. 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. 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. Written as one word. The place you wait is a 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，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。
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.
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。