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wheels

US // (wiːlz) //

轮子,轮毂,轮船

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Definitions

  1. 1
    • : the main directing force behind an organization, movement, etcthe wheels of government
    • : an informal word for car
    • : wheels within wheels a series of intricately connected events, plots, etc

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Examples

  • You can put mag wheels on a Gremlin,” commented one long time Michigan observer, “but that doesn't make it a Mustang.

  • How did the Inca get giant blocks of stone up mountains 500 years ago without the use of wheels?

  • But, still, week after week, Addison lived in a Dili hostel waiting for the rusty wheels of Timorese justice to set her free.

  • Apart from his wheels, Hamzat was living with few comforts and little cash.

  • Will breakfast at Balthazar bring sudden revelations about Millennials and Gen Xers and their taste in wheels?

  • He was between the wheels when we stopped, and I planted a crutch on one of his bare feet and embraced him.

  • But—and I forbear to lead up to it artistically—I dissever myself from your chariot wheels.

  • When he travelled on his line he came in contact with bucolic interests instead of the whirring wheels of trade.

  • Probably those cast-iron wheels were ordered with a view to steam locomotion in the Cordilleras.

  • An engine is described in the invoice as having chimney, axles, carriage-wheels, &c.