fourth gear

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The fourth of the available gears in a transmission or other gearbox. countable,uncountable
  2. A maximal level of effort. countable,dated,idiomatic,uncountable
    — During the seventies, Shashi Kapoor went into fourth gear in Bollywood, while Merchant and Ivory made a slew of films, many of which were not set in India.

词形变化

fourth gears plural

词源

The figurative sense reflects that in some times and places, fourth gear was the highest gear that a car could achieve; compare French en quatrième vitesse.
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