- 1拖車桿、拖車鉤（裝在車尾、末端有圓球的那根金屬桿）
A towbar is a strong metal bar fixed to the back of a car, so the car can pull something behind it — a caravan (a house on wheels you sleep in), a boat on a trailer, a small trailer full of garden rubbish. The bar sticks out low under the back bumper and ends in a metal ball; the thing you are pulling has a cup that drops over that ball and locks on. That ball shape is the whole point: it lets the trailer swing left and right as the car turns corners, instead of snapping off.
The word is British and Australian more than American — in the US people usually say tow hitch, or just hitch, and a big pickup truck almost always has one. In Britain you hear 'Does your car have a towbar?' before a friend asks you to help them move house.
One small thing worth knowing: a towbar is for pulling something that has its own wheels. If a car has broken down and must be dragged away, that is a job for a tow truck with a rope or a lifting arm, not for the towbar on your friend's car. And people do use towbars for things that are not trailers at all — bike racks that clip onto the ball are very common now, so you will see a car with four bicycles hanging off the back, held up by the towbar.
組成tow (to pull something behind a vehicle) + bar (a straight piece of metal). A bar for towing — the word says exactly what it is.
同家族的字
- towropesame tow — a rope for pulling instead of a bar
- towlinesame tow — the line (rope) used for pulling
- towpathsame tow — the path beside a canal, where horses walked while pulling boats
- tow trucksame tow — the truck that comes when your car dies
- crossbarsame bar — the bar across the top of a goal
- handlebarssame bar — the bars you hold on a bicycle
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。
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- tow bar
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。