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three-speed

/three-speed/US // ˈθriˌspid //

三速,三段式,三档,三速的

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a system of gears having three forward gear ratios, especially on a bicycle.
    • : a bicycle having such a system of gears.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having three forward gear ratios.

Examples

  • Term limits could be a prescription to speed change along.

  • Their three-day scientific outing was paid for by Epstein and was big success.

  • Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.

  • He felt his body grow limp (like one of those high-speed films of a flower wilting).

  • One of the other cops fired three times and those who were still able to give chase did.

  • It is thinner than that of chronic bronchitis, and upon standing separates into three layers of pus, mucus, and frothy serum.

  • I waited three months more, in great impatience, then sent him back to the same post, to see if there might be a reply.

  • There are three things a wise man will not trust: the wind, the sunshine of an April day, and woman's plighted faith.

  • In cross-section the burrows varied from round (three inches in diameter) to oval (three inches high and four inches wide).

  • It separates into three layers upon standing—a brown deposit, a clear fluid, and a frothy layer.