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- a foot-operated lever or control for a vehicle, musical instrument, or other mechanism, in particular（车辆、乐器或其他机械）用脚操作的杠杆（或控制器）, 尤指：
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- each of a pair of levers used for powering a bicycle or other vehicle propelled by leg power（用腿的力量驱动的自行车等的）脚踏, 脚蹬子。
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- a foot-operated throttle, brake, or clutch control in a motor vehicle（机动车内油门、刹车或离合器的）踏板, 踩踏板。
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- each of a set of two or three levers on a piano, particularly (also sustaining pedal) one which, when depressed, prevents the dampers from stopping the sound when the keys are released. The second is the soft pedal; a third, if present, produces either selective sustaining or complete muffling of the tone.（钢琴的）踏板。
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- a foot-operated device for producing a sound effect on an electric guitar（电吉他上用于产生音响效果的）踏板。
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- Music short for PEDAL NOTE (in sense 2).【乐】PEDAL NOTE的简称（义项2）。
(pedalled, pedalling; <美> pedaled, pedaling) no obj., with adverbial of direction
1- move by working the pedals of a bicycle骑自行车前进：
they pedalled along the canal towpath.
他们沿运河纤道骑车前行。
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- with obj. and adverbial of direction move (a bicycle) by working its pedals踩（自行车）的踏板前行：
she was pedalling a bicycle around town.
她正绕着小镇骑自行车。
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- no obj. work the pedals of a bicycle踩自行车踏脚：
he was coming down the path on his bike, pedalling hard.
他正拼命地蹬着车沿着小路骑过去。
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- no obj. use the pedals of a piano, especially in a particular style（尤指以某种特别方式）踩动钢琴踏板：
as noun pedalling Chopin gave no indications of pedalling in his manuscript.在他的手稿中, 肖邦没有注明要用钢琴踏板。
USAGE
People often confuse the words pedal and peddle. Pedal is a noun referring to a foot-operated lever, as on a bicycle, and a verb chiefly meaning 'move by working the pedals of a bicycle' （they pedalled along the road）. Peddle, on the other hand, is a verb meaning 'sell goods or promote an idea' （he peddled printing materials around the country ｜ she peddled a ludicrously Utopian view of the past）. The related words pedlar and pedaller are also confused. A pedlar （also spelled peddler, especially in the US） is a person who goes from place to place selling goods, while a pedaller （or, in the US, a pedaler） is someone who rides a bike.
短语
with the pedal to the metal
- N. Amer. informal with the accelerator of a car pressed to the floor〈北美, 非正式〉油门踩到底全速行驶。
派生词
pedaller
（US〈美〉pedaler）noun词源
early 17th cent. （denoting a foot-operated lever of an organ）： from French pédale, from Italian pedale, from Latin pedalis 'a foot in length', from pes, ped-'foot'.