quad bike

短语

n. 四轮摩托车

发音

US /ˈkwɑd ˌbaɪk/
UK /ˈkwɒd ˌbaɪk/

词形变化

quad bikes 复数 quad bikes

别名

quadbike

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A small off-road four-wheeled powered vehicle, especially of a design derived from a motorcycle, usually used for recreation or farm work.

    沙滩车

    四轮摩托车

词源

From quad (“four (“4”)”) + bike (“bicycle”). From being a 4-wheeled quadricycle vehicle that is ridden astride like a dirt bike (“motorcycle”). The oxymoronic character of the term, via the etymonic-level contradiction of quad ("four") in juxtaposition with the bi- behind bike ("two"), is simply ignored by idiom, as such contradictions often are.

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