wheel clamp
wheel clamp — 名詞
1. a heavy metal lock that officials fix onto one wheel of a badly parked car, hold
車輪鎖
鎖住違停車輪、繳款才拆的金屬裝置
a heavy metal lock that officials fix onto one wheel of a badly parked car, holding it in place until the driver pays the fine they owe
A traffic officer fitted a yellow wheel clamp onto Hamza's car outside the station.
一名交通人員在車站外將一個黃色車輪鎖裝在 Hamza 的車上。
fit / put a wheel clamp on [a car]
Allison had to pay sixty pounds before the council would take off the wheel clamp.
Allison 必須先付六十英鎊，市政府才願意拆掉車輪鎖。
remove / take off the wheel clamp
The shopping centre warns that staff will use a wheel clamp on cars left overnight.
購物中心警告，對於停放過夜的車子，員工會上車輪鎖。
warning notice context
Gabriela returned to find a bright orange wheel clamp locked around her front tyre.
Gabriela 回來時，發現一個鮮橙色的車輪鎖鎖在她的前輪上。
wheel clamp locked around a tyre
The new rules let private firms attach a wheel clamp without a court order.
新規定允許民間業者不經法院命令就裝上車輪鎖。
- fit a wheel clamp
- remove a wheel clamp
- release a wheel clamp
- boot
American English term for the same device
- Denver boot
American, more formal or technical name
用法筆記
Chiefly British; American English usually says 'boot' or 'Denver boot' for the same device. The clamp is fitted by an authority or landowner, not by the driver.
常見錯誤
wheel clamp — 動詞
- wheel clamppresent simple I / you / we / they
- wheels clamp3rd person singular
- wheeling clamp-ing form
- wheeled clamppast simple
1. to fix a heavy metal lock onto the wheel of a car that someone has parked where
上車輪鎖
將金屬鎖裝上違停車輪使其無法駛離
to fix a heavy metal lock onto the wheel of a car that someone has parked where they should not, so it cannot be driven off
Officers threatened to wheel-clamp any van that blocked the narrow lane near the market.
人員揚言，對任何阻擋市場旁狹窄巷道的貨車都會上車輪鎖。
wheel-clamp + [vehicle] as object
Eve found her hatchback wheel-clamped outside the hospital because she had missed the meter.
Eve 發現她的掛背車被上了車輪鎖停在醫院外，因為她忘了繳計時表。
passive: be wheel-clamped
The college warns that it will wheel-clamp cars parked on the grass during exams.
學院警告，考試期間停在草坪上的車子將被上車輪鎖。
future warning: will wheel-clamp
Sayaka was furious to discover that someone had wheel-clamped her motorbike overnight.
Sayaka 發現有人在夜裡給她的機車上了車輪鎖，氣壞了。
- wheel-clamp a car
- wheel-clamp a vehicle
- get wheel-clamped
- release
to take the clamp off again
文法句型
wheel-clamp + [vehicle]
用法筆記
Almost always done by an authority or landowner to a vehicle, so the object is a vehicle and the subject is rarely the driver. Frequently used in the passive.
常見錯誤
同根字
- wheel-clamp動詞B2
- wheel-clamping名詞B2
常見搭配
名詞搭配
- wheel clamp removal
- wheel clamp fee
常用片語
- fit a wheel clamp
- remove a wheel clamp
- get wheel-clamped
介系詞搭配
- a wheel clamp on [a car]