runabout
/ruhn-uh-bout/US // ˈrʌn əˌbaʊt //UK // (ˈrʌnəˌbaʊt) //
跑马场,跑马厅,跑车,跑马灯
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a small, light automobile or other vehicle, usually with an open top; roadster.
- : a small pleasure motorboat.
- : a person who roves around from place to place or group to group.
Examples
Zipping around on “rovers”—a vast category of electric, automated runabouts that includes bikes, scooters, and even wheelchairs—is the way to go now.
Isnt that Mrs. Prenticethe very rich Mrs. Prenticein her electric runabout?
Then she saw that Jim had left the runabout himself and was now between the shafts of a small low wagon, drawing it into the road.
The man named Dangler followed the runabout to the road and watched it disappear around a turn bordered by trees.
Dangler watched the runabout and then gazed up and down the mountain for several minutes.
There was one from a village called Bahan, saying a green runabout with two men had passed through there about midnight.
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