2020年7月16日 星期四

slave driver, driverless, driver’s license, roll cage, car-and-driver type

Although he lived in Connecticut, LeWitt was no stranger to New York City’s transit system. He did not have a driver’s license, and in the city he always took the subway. “He wasn’t the car-and-driver type,” Ms. LeWitt recalled.


http://www.autopowerindustries.com/rollcages.asp

(design engineering) A frame of metal bars that is installed in a racing car around the driver's seat to protect the driver in the event of an accident.

 roll cage



齊教授以敬謹認真的 態度負責編務,在「我們台灣文學很重要」的共識下,引領著一群人把台灣文學推到國際文壇的聚光燈下。效率高超的她,多次戲稱自己是「奴隸頭子」 (slave driver),催逼手下這群人幹活。筆者也曾被抓公差,一字一句對照中文原文來校訂英譯,務求譯文的忠實、暢達、優美,親身體會她的工作態度、要求與效 率。


driverless 無人駕駛

Driverless car: Google awarded US patent for technology
BBC News
Google says the landing strip could simply be a mark on the ground, a sign on a wall, or lines or arrows showing where the vehicle should be parked. To detect which landing strip it has been parked at, the document says the car could activate a GPS ...


slave driver
a person who makes other people work very hard: 
My boss is a real slave driver.
- a supervisor of slaves at work. 

driver


IN BRIEF: n. - The operator of a motor vehicle. Also: (computer science) A program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device.

pronunciation With his car stalled in a busy intersection, the flustered driver hurriedly got out and lifted the hood. — James Keller, Source: Three Minutes by James Keller, M. M., 1950

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