2020年1月25日 星期六

bicycle, trike, tricycle, hub, spoke, with bike theft on the rise,cyclist



Onion-like though its title may be, Daniel Duane's opinion piece in Sunday's New York Times, "Is It OK To Kill Cyclists?", is in deadly earnest. As Mr Duane writes, motorists in America generally receive no punishment whatsoever for crashing into or killing cyclists, even when the accident is transparently their fault http://econ.st/1j4Eb9j
Using a small fleet of electric-assisted tricycles, B-Line Sustainable Delivery moves freight around downtown Portland, Ore. Lance Paul ventured out on his morning route; B-Line's trikes offer advertising space on the sides of their cargo boxes.

Prototype

In Cargo Delivery, the Three-Wheelers That Could

By CLAIRE MARTIN

A small freight company in Portland, Ore., makes its deliveries not with semitrailers but with electric-assisted trikes. 


With bike theft on the rise, some angry cyclists, armed with bike blogs and social-media Web sites, are taking matters into their own hands.


Bookshelf: Bicycles

By PAMELA PAUL
New picture books about people of all ages and their bikes.



Definition of bike
noun
  • a bicycle or motorcycle: I’m going by bike [as modifier]:a bike ride

verb

[no object, with adverbial of direction]
  • ride a bicycle or motorcycle:Danny bikes to the park and back every day
  • [with object] British cause (a letter or package) to be delivered by bicycle or motorcycle:I’ll get them to bike the scripts over
Phrases

get off one's bike

Australian/NZ informal become annoyed.

on your bike!

British informal go away (used as an expression of annoyance).

Origin:

late 19th century: abbreviation


on the rise (être) en augmentation, (être) en hausse 法文
becoming greater or more numerous; increasing:prices were on the rise
becoming more successful:young stars on the rise

on the rise

  • 詞組

    1. (物價等)上升中;(人)地位提升中

on the rise

  1. 在上升 英文的表達方式重點在於突出客觀事實而中文則善於運用動作的執行者 complain of about tieba.baidu.com - 相關搜尋
  2. 正在上升 on the rise 正在上升 on the boil 正在沸騰 on the go 正在忙碌中. on the watch www.veryen.org - 相關搜尋
  3. 在增長 在增長. 5 scarce 不足的 稀有的 6 on the rise 在增長 7 ramshackle 破爛不堪的. www.iciba.com - 相關搜尋
  4. 在上漲 4 rise up 起義give rise to 引起on the rise 在上漲 5 on the spot 當場 在現場 www.jxenglish.com - 相關搜尋
  5. 增長 2 on the rise 在上升 3 beyond all thing 超過一切. httpwwwjiaoshibizjiaoan03n5903 www.iciba.com - 相關搜尋


hub
  • [hʌ'b]
[名]
1 （車輪などの）ハブ, こしき. ⇒BICYCLE（図）
2 ((the 〜))（活動などの）中心（地）, 中核((of ...)).
3 ((the H-))米国Massachusetts州Boston市の異名. ▼the hub of the universe（宇宙の中心）より.
from hub to tire
((略式))完全に.
up to the hub
((略式))完全に；没頭して.
━━[形]中心的な.

bicycle[bi・cy・cle]

  • 発音記号[báisikl]
[名]自転車；原動機付き自転車. ⇒BIKE, CYCLE 4, TANDEM[名]3
ride a bicycle
自転車に乗る
mount ［get on(to)］ a bicycle
自転車にまたがる
dismount from ［get off］ a bicycle
自転車からおりる
go by ［on a］ bicycle
自転車で行く
a bicycle pump
自転車の空気入れ
I haven't been on a bicycle for years.
ここ数年自転車に乗っていない.
━━[動](自)((形式))自転車に乗る［で行く］. ▼cycleのほうがふつう
go bicycling
サイクリングをする.
［フランス語. BI-1（2つの）＋CYCLE（車）＝二輪車. △TRICYCLE］




trike

Syllabification: (trike)
Pronunciation: /trīk/

informal
Definition of trike

noun

  • a tricycle.

Origin:

late 19th century: abbreviation

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