horseless carriage

短语

n. （老式的）汽车

词形变化

horseless carriages 复数 horseless carriages

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An early automobile, of the types designed before World War I.

    历史
  2. 2.

    Something new and unprecedented interpreted in older and familiar terms.

    比喻

    horseless carriage thinking

词汇关系

名词

上位词 5

car machine auto automobile motorcar

词源

Early term for an automobile, at the time it was common that carriages were pulled by animals, typically horses, but the automobiles were not.

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