spare tyre

Word family adjectivesparelesssparingadverbsparelysparinglynounsparenesssparersparingnessspare partspare roomspare tyreverbspare

Related topics: Motor vehicles

ˌspare ˈtyre British EnglishBrE, spare tire American English noun [countableC]

1. TTCan additional wheel with a tyre on it, that you keep in a car to use if another tyre gets damaged 备用轮胎

2. FATthe fat around someone’s waist – used humorously 腰间赘肉，肥胖的腰〔幽默用法〕

Examples from the Corpus

spare tyre• Thank goodness for my spare tyre, I can afford to lose a bit of that.• If only he took as much exercise as I did he wouldn't have that spare tyre, I thought unsympathetically.• Their companion, in his 20s, had an old, noisy van with a smiling face logo on the spare tyre.

单词	spare tyre
释义	spare tyre Word family adjectivesparelesssparingadverbsparelysparinglynounsparenesssparersparingnessspare partspare roomspare tyreverbspare Related topics: Motor vehicles ˌspare ˈtyre British EnglishBrE, spare tire American English noun [countableC] 1. TTCan additional wheel with a tyre on it, that you keep in a car to use if another tyre gets damaged 备用轮胎 2. FATthe fat around someone’s waist – used humorously 腰间赘肉，肥胖的腰〔幽默用法〕 Examples from the Corpus spare tyre• Thank goodness for my spare tyre, I can afford to lose a bit of that.• If only he took as much exercise as I did he wouldn't have that spare tyre, I thought unsympathetically.• Their companion, in his 20s, had an old, noisy van with a smiling face logo on the spare tyre.
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