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Vehicular means "to do with vehicles" — cars, trucks, buses, , anything that carries people or things along a road. It is the adjective form of the noun *vehicle*. You will almost never hear this word in normal talk. Nobody says "vehicular traffic was heavy today." They say "there were a lot of cars." Vehicular lives in official English: road signs, police reports, city rules, news about accidents, insurance papers. If you see it, someone is being formal on purpose. The places you actually meet it: - **vehicular traffic** — cars and trucks as a group, often used to separate them from people walking. A sign may say "No vehicular access" on a path where only people can go. - **vehicular accident / vehicular collision** — the police or news way of saying "car crash." - **vehicular homicide / vehicular manslaughter** — a legal charge in the US when a driver kills someone by driving badly or drunk. This is a courtroom term, not everyday speech. There is also a stretched use, mostly by writers and academics, where *vehicular* means "acting as a carrier for something else" — the same idea as when we say a language or a story is a *vehicle* for an idea. A *vehicular language* is one people from different mother tongues use to talk to each other. This use is rare and you can safely just recognise it, not produce it. One small thing: because it sounds heavy and official, using it in casual writing makes you sound stiff or slightly funny. Save it for signs, reports, and law.
車輛的、行車的(正式用語,多見於交通告示、警方或法律文件;vehicular homicide 台灣新聞常譯為「過失致死(駕駛)」)
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。
vehicularadj/viˈhɪk.jə.lə(ɹ)/
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Of or pertaining to a vehicle or vehicles, usually specifically cars and trucks; involving a vehicle.
- vehicular homicide
- Ernest had a fear of vehicular travel, and ended up walking everywhere.
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human-scienceslinguisticssciencesThat is used between two groups who do not share a common native tongue nor a common culture.
- vehicular language
- English is used as a vehicular language in many business settings.
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。