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Motorcade Cars Line President Part Carrying 英 Məʊtəkeɪd] 美

英语单词 motorcade
英美音标 英 ['məʊtəkeɪd] 美 ['moʊtərkeɪd]
中文释义 n.(汽)车队
英语例句 (1) In the street a motorcade was passing.
(2) The motorcade was preceded by motorcycles.
中文例句 (1) 一长列汽车从街头驰过。
(2) 摩托车为车队作先导。
vocabulary简明 A motorcade is a line of cars traveling together, usually slowly and ceremonially. If the President comes to town, you are bound to see a motorcade.
vocabulary扩展 When the President travels to give a speech, part of the trip usually occurs in a motorcade. In the case of a powerful person like a world leader, a motorcade is mainly made up of Secret Service agents providing security. A funeral motorcade is comprised of the cars of mourners, and sometimes a hearse carrying the deceased person's body. Motorcade borrowed -cade from cavalcade, a procession on horseback, turning it into a suffix in the early 1900s.
柯林斯解释
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[N-COUNT 可数名词](载有重要人物的)车队,汽车行列 A motorcade is a line of slow-moving cars carrying important people, usually as part of a public ceremony.
  • At times the president's motorcade slowed to a crawl.

    有时总统车队放慢速度缓缓而行。

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