streetcar

名词 n.
中文释义
美 /ˈstɹitˌkɑɹ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A tram or light rail vehicle, usually a single car but sometimes multiple cars attached together, operating on city streets; a trolley car. Canada,US
    — Here, outside, in the light and the shade and the heat, there was a great tinkling of the bells of innumerable streetcars, and a constant strolling and shuffling and rustling of many pedestrians, a large proportion of whom were young women in Pompadour-looking dresses.

词形变化

streetcars plural

词源

From street + car. Coined before the era of motorcars, the term emphasized a type of car on rails that were in the street (along with foot traffic, wagons, and carriages) rather than on a separate, dedicated railroad, as a railcar is.
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