1A transmission system which provides power directly to all four wheels of a vehicle.

1. 1.1 A vehicle with four-wheel drive, typically designed for off-road driving.
   （尤指越野）四轮驱动汽车
   down the track came a powerful Japanese four-wheel drive

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   • The few roads that do exist are treacherous even for four-wheel drives during downpours.
   • The side roads are rough and may require high clearance four-wheel drives.
   • We have also the use of motorcycles and four-wheel drives on the path.
   • He said that although using four-wheel drives, quad bikes and other vehicles on green lanes was not illegal, it could cause problems if tracks were not maintained.
   • Two British backpackers asleep on the beach of Fraser Island were run over yesterday by one of the four-wheel drives that conservationists say have become a plague on the island off Queensland, reports said yesterday.
   • He believes the company's low-key strategy of establishing itself as a niche player with its sturdy four-wheel drives has paid off.
   • We've also got more and better surfboards, sailing boats, motorboats, four-wheel drives and trailbikes and new sports that could only have been imagined back then.
   • The group was transported in a convoy of police vans, ambulances and four-wheel drives, which snaked its way along main roads and boreens to the search area.
   • Sales of four-wheel drives dropped even more, down by 11.9 per cent as higher petrol prices turned buyers away.
   • As we pack our various paraphernalia into the boots of several cars and four-wheel drives, I try not to contemplate what Robert'll make of my ridiculous outburst last night.
   • Organizers set up a mobile site there to the appreciation of all contestants, with four-wheel drives taxiing those involved between locations.
   • They are still failing to protect fragile dunes, shellfish beds, and nesting grounds from four-wheel drives.
   • People who have tussled with four-wheel drives before will be accustomed to this slightly squidgy feel but first-timers might be little disconcerted.
   • This half-day guided tour will bring them right onto the golden sand dunes of Arabia in four-wheel drives.
   • Some of the TV crews that have been tearing around town in the hired four-wheel drives are pulling out too, and there's a sense of the story winding down.
   • More than once, pulling each other out of mud or pushing a bow wave though the rivers, the four-wheel drives prove their worth.
   • A lot of our members drive Jeeps of some sort, but we have a good assortment of pickup trucks, hybrids and other four-wheel drives.
   • It was our second time down there - we wish we could make it more often, but due to geographical conditions of the place, only four-wheel drives or better equipped vehicles can access the beach, while our car is nothing but an old compact car.
   • But later he drove home in one of the museum's four-wheel drives with the luggage compartment filled with animal skulls.
   • You also see white, white, beaches, sparkling aquamarine sea and jeeps and four-wheel drives bumping along over the rocks and between the divi divi trees that are bent over by the trade winds.