lorries

英 [ˈlɒriz]

美 [ˈlɔriz]

n.  卡车; 货运汽车
lorry的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 卡车；货车
  Alorryis a large vehicle that is used to transport goods by road.
  1. ...a seven-ton lorry.
     7吨的卡车

in AM, use 美国英语用 truck


• PHRASE （货物等）来路不明，是老鼠货，是贼赃
  If someone says that something has fallenoff the back of a lorry, or that they got somethingoff the back of a lorry, they mean that they bought something that they knew was stolen.
  1. He gets caviare that has fallen off the back of a lorry...
     他能弄到来路不明的鱼子酱。
  2. Pete once bought the boys a bicycle cheap off the back of a lorry.
     皮特有一回给孩子们买了一辆便宜的老鼠货自行车。

双语例句

• I heard the engines revving as the lorries backed and turned.
  卡车倒车和掉头的时候，我听见发动机的轰鸣声。
• We saw a car squashed between two heavy lorries on the motorway.
  我们看见高速公路上有一辆小汽车在两辆重型货车中间压扁了。
• Lorries rumble past their homes.
  大货车隆隆地驶过他们的家。
• The jeep has been blocked in by all those lorries.
  吉普车已被那些卡车团团围住了。
• Police cars, their sirens wailing, accompanied the lorries
  警车护送着大卡车，一路警笛长鸣。
• Lorries rumbled past them, splashing them with filthy water from the potholes in the road
  大卡车从他们身旁轰隆隆开过，把路上坑凹里的脏水溅到了他们身上。
• This week's bombs were similar in type and intent, though minibuses rather than lorries were used;
  尽管用的是小型公共汽车而非卡车，这个星期的炸弹袭击在类型和意图上与以前相似；
• The lorries drew up, and they piled on.
  卡车停下来，他们一拥而上。
• Traffic from Jordan to Iraq is down to a dozen loaded lorries a day, compared with a high of 200 a day
  现在从约旦到伊拉克一天只有十几辆装货的卡车通过，而最高峰时可达到一天200辆。
• The army lorries were sprayed with machine gun fire from guerrillas in the woods.
  部队的运货卡车遭到了树林中游击队机关枪的扫射。