- 1（英式）車輪鎖、鎖車器——違規停車時鎖在輪子上讓車開不走的那個大鐵夾。美式叫 boot。台灣比較常見的是直接拖吊，所以東西本身可能沒看過
A heavy metal device that police or parking officers lock onto the wheel of a car that is parked where it should not be. The wheel cannot turn, so the car cannot be driven away. The driver has to pay a fine and then wait for someone to come and unlock it.
This is the British word. Americans say "boot" for the same object, and "to boot a car" for the action — one of the clearest small differences between the two Englishes.
It works as a noun and as a verb: "they put a wheel-clamp on my car," and "my car was wheel-clamped." In Britain people very often both: just "a clamp," "I got clamped," "the clampers came." You will hear the short form far more than the full one. The spelling moves around too — wheel-clamp, wheel clamp, wheelclamp are all seen.
The feeling around this word is worth knowing. Nobody mentions it happily. It appears in complaints, warning signs ("Clamping in operation"), and angry stories. In Taiwan the usual response to illegal parking is a tow truck rather than a clamp, so the object itself may be unfamiliar even when the word is understood.
組成wheel + clamp. A clamp is any tool that grips two sides of something and holds it tight so it cannot move — the same word carpenters use for the tool that holds wood while glue dries.
同家族的字
- clampthe gripping tool itself; also the verb, to hold something tight
- clamp downsame clamp — to get strict about something, as in 'clamp down on speeding'
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。
wheel-clampverb
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To immobilize (a vehicle) with a wheel clamp.
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。