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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary
- lorry ['lɔrɪ]
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noun
[BRIT]
[c]
卡车[美 = truck]
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1.
noun
[BRIT]
[c]
卡车[美 = truck]
Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary
Collins English-English Dictionary
- lorry ['lɒrɪ]
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1.
n
a large motor vehicle designed to carry heavy loads, esp one with a flat platform truck - See also articulated vehicle
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2.
n
any of various vehicles with a flat load-carrying surface, esp one designed to run on rails
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3.
n
[Etymology]
C19: perhaps related to northern English dialect lurry to pull, tug
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1.
n
a large motor vehicle designed to carry heavy loads, esp one with a flat platform truck - See also articulated vehicle
Examples
- A lorry driver narrowly escaped with his life after the lorry flipped over the embankment.
- 卡车冲出筑堤，司机险些丧命。 → lorry
- The lorry usually delivers our stock in the middle of the night.
- 卡车通常会在半夜把我们的货物送来。 → lorry
- he drives a taxi/lorry
- 他开出租车/卡车 → drive
- a lorry has shed its load
- [BRIT] 一辆大卡车掉落了货物 → shed
- the train hit the lorry broadside → broadside
- it fell off the back of a lorry → off the back of a lorry
- piggyback lorry trains → piggyback
- the police stopped every lorry within a radius of four miles → radius
- to stack bricks on a lorry → stack
- to stack a lorry with bricks → stack
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