- N-COUNT 发动机;引擎
The motor in a machine, vehicle, or boat is the part that uses electricity or fuel to produce movement, so that the machine, vehicle, or boat can work.
- She got in and started the motor.
她坐上车,发动了引擎。
- ADJ 机动的;由发动机驱动的
Motor vehicles and boats have a petrol or diesel engine.
- Theft of motor vehicles is up by 15.9%.
机动车辆偷盗案上升了15.9%。
- ADJ 汽车的;车辆的
Motor is used to describe activities relating to vehicles such as cars and buses.
- ...the future of the British motor industry...
英国汽车工业的未来 - He worked as a motor mechanic.
他是一名汽车修理工。
in AM, usually use 美国英语通常用 automotive, automobile
- 汽车;轿车
Some people refer to a car as a motor .
- VERB 自驾游览;乘汽车旅行
If you motor somewhere, you travel there in a car, usually for pleasure.
- I had motored down from Cheshire.
我从柴郡一路南下开过来。
- VERB 使用发动机驾驶帆船
If people in a small sailing boat motor somewhere, they use the boat's motor rather than the power of the wind to get there.
- Restarting the engine, we motored downriver.
我们重新启动马达,沿河而下。
- See also: motoring outboard motor