car
/kɑː(r)/noun
1- a road vehicle, typically with four wheels, powered by an internal-combustion engine and able to carry a small number of people汽车：
we're going by car
我们坐汽车去
as modifier a car crash.一次车祸。
1.1
- a railway carriage, especially one of a specified kind（尤指某种）火车车厢：
the first-class cars.
头等火车车厢。
1.2
- N. Amer. any railway carriage or wagon〈北美〉火车车厢; 货车：
a railroad car.
一列货车。
1.3
- the passenger compartment of a lift, cableway, or balloon（电梯的）梯厢; （索道或气球的）吊舱。
1.4
- poetic / literary a chariot〈诗/文〉战车。
派生词
carful
noun （pl. -fuls）词源
late Middle English （in the general sense 'wheeled vehicle'）： from Old Northern French carre, based on Latin carrum， carrus， of Celtic origin.