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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. 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.