horseless carriage

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An early automobile, of the types designed before World War I. historical
    — The movement for the introduction of horseless carriages is represented by two periodicals, the Horseless Age and the Motocycle, in the United States; the Autocar, in London; and La Locomotion Automobile and La France Automobile, in France.
  2. Something new and unprecedented interpreted in older and familiar terms. figuratively
    — horseless carriage thinking

词形变化

horseless carriages plural

词源

Early term for an automobile, at the time it was common that carriages were pulled by animals, typically horses, but the automobiles were not.
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