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spare tire

备用轮胎,备胎,备用胎,备用车胎

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a tire used or kept available as an emergency replacement on a vehicle.
    • : Informal. excess fat around the waistline.

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Examples

  • The truck’s full-size spare tire stows in a bin beneath the bed.

  • Inside the engine compartment, underneath the spare tire in the trunk, and any junctures where the car is put together might accumulate outside trash that doesn’t belong.

  • It’s gonna help us get by, but if we think that we can try to drive with a spare tire for too long, the car is going to break down somewhere else.

  • The well where your spare tire lives is perfect for a small battery or nonessential gear.

  • If the idea of a religious vigilante ambushing sex workers in his spare time sets off alarm bells, it probably should.

  • Who knew explaining how to change a tire and back out of a ditch could be so seductive?

  • After a tire-puncturing spree in late October, 17-year-old Laquan McDonald was shot dead by a police officer in Chicago.

  • The group encompasses Byrne's art-rock solitariness and the dissociation effects in the spare—somewhat Godardian—staging.

  • We met on the third floor of a shabby building in Asadabad in an impossibly spare room that we dragged cushions into.

  • There seems something in that also which I could spare only very reluctantly from a new Bible in the world.

  • He threw himself on his knees, begging us, in the name of God and all the saints, to spare his life.

  • Harry took his bed into the spare-room, and Black Sheep lay down to die.

  • You may rest assured that I will spare no time or attention to promote the performance of this engine.

  • I assure you that it is as I say—neither at the post-house nor at any of the inns I visited could I find me a spare horse.