a thing used for transporting people or goods, especially on land, such as a car, lorry, or cart 交通工具(如汽车、卡车、大车)
a thing used to express, embody, or fulfil something (表达、体现或完成的工具)手段,方法,载体 I use paint as a vehicle for my ideas. 我用色彩表达思想。 ■a substance that facilitates the use of a drug, pigment, or other material mixed with it 展色剂,调漆料 ■a privately controlled company through which an individual or organization conducts a particular kind of business, especially investment (个人,组织从事经营、尤指投资的)公司 ■a film, television programme, song, etc. that is intended to display the leading performer to the best advantage (为展露主演者才华)度身定制的创作(影、视、歌等)
派生 vehicular [vɪˈhɪkjʊlə] adjective
(一般用于义项 1)
语源
early 17th cent.: from French véhicule or Latin vehiculum, from vehere 'carry'