sedan
sedan — 名詞
- sedansingular
- sedansplural
1. a closed four-wheel motor vehicle with a separate trunk at the rear, room for a
轎車
四門、有獨立後車廂的小客車
a closed four-wheel motor vehicle with a separate trunk at the rear, room for a driver and up to four riders, and sold in both two-door and four-door styles
Andrés bought a used sedan for his daily commute to work.
Andrés 買了一輛二手轎車，用來每日開車上下班。
collocation: used sedan / buy a sedan
Talia's family sedan has enough room for five passengers and their suitcases.
Talia 家的轎車空間夠大，可以坐五名乘客並放他們的行李。
collocation: family sedan
The airport taxi was a white sedan with a spacious boot for luggage.
機場的計程車是一輛白色轎車，後車廂空間很大可以放行李。
Many drivers choose a sedan over an SUV for easier city parking.
許多買車的人選擇轎車而不是 SUV，因為在市中心比較好停車。
comparison structure: choose A over B
- family sedan
- luxury sedan
- used sedan
- four-door sedan
- compact sedan
- saloon
British English term for the same type of car
- four-door car
descriptive phrase emphasising the number of doors
用法筆記
In British English, this type of car is more commonly called a saloon.
常見錯誤
2. a portable covered chair for one person, carried on long poles by two or more pe
轎子
由兩人抬行、可坐一人的有蓋座椅
a portable covered chair for one person, carried on long poles by two or more people, used in past centuries as a form of transport
The museum display shows a sedan chair used by a wealthy merchant in the 1700s.
博物館的展品中有一頂 1700 年代富商使用過的轎子。
collocation: sedan chair
Servants carried Soraya's grandmother in a sedan chair through the old town's narrow streets.
僕人抬著 Soraya 的祖母乘坐的轎子，穿過舊城區狹窄的街道。
passive pattern: be carried in a sedan chair
Owning a sedan chair was a sign of high social status in 18th-century Europe.
在 18 世紀的歐洲，擁有轎子是社會地位崇高的象徵。
Vivek found an old painting of a sedan chair crossing a rainy London street.
Vivek 在一幅古老的畫作中看到一頂轎子在下雨的倫敦街頭被抬著走。
- sedan chair
- carried in a sedan chair
- sedan chair bearers
用法筆記
This sense is historical; the modern meaning refers almost exclusively to the car type (sense 1).