Picture the short, everyday word for a two-wheeled thing you sit on and ride. Bike is the casual name — bicycle is what it says on the box, bike is what people actually say. Because it is the relaxed word, it stretches easily: to the machine, to the riding, and even into a spoken phrase that has nothing to do with cycling.
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原始詞典資料9 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
bikenoun詞源 1/baɪk/
- 1
Any vehicle sharing some characteristics with a bicycle or motorbike, such as pedal power, a handlebar, or a saddle.
- He warmed up the engine; the bike hovered off the ground despite his weight and the extra equipment.
- In 2017, Amsterdam banned beer bikes from the center of the Dutch city. About 6,000 locals signed a petition, calling on the council to outlaw the vehicles, referring to them as a “terrible phenomenon.”
bikeverb詞源 1/baɪk/
- 1
informalTo ride a bike.
- I biked so much yesterday that I'm very sore today.
- In the 1890’s “women were behind the stove,” he relates. But they cycled, too. “And they had difficulty pedalling bicycles with ankle-length skirts. “At the time,” Taylor said, “the most sinful thing a woman could do was to show light between her legs. “The original culotte was designed by a LAW member’s wife. The churches (in the East) termed this bepantsed female activity of biking “sinful bicycling,” he noted.
- 2
informalTo travel by bike.
- It was such a nice day I decided to bike to the store, though it's far enough I usually take my car.
- He saw me catch a trap and leave the house of a drug dealer. That's why he targeted me. He could have easily blown my ass off right then and there for lying, but for some reason he didn't. He just left. I biked back to my plug's spot and told him […]
- 3
informalTo transport by bicycle.
- I biked them the letters.
- Frank, a teenager, arrived at his grandfather’s shop to begin work as a butcher’s boy. The job would be to bike parcels of meat around Dronfield and the surrounding countryside between the cities of Sheffield and Chesterfield, right on the county border of Derbyshire and Yorkshire.
bikenoun詞源 2/baɪk/
- 1
informalA hive of bees, or a nest of wasps, hornets, or ants.
- like blue bottle flees in a blink of sunshine, […]A bonny bike there’s o’ them!
- he stood for a minute talking to them about their job of gathering cones, and telling them a story about a tree he’d once climbed which had a wasp’s byke in it unbeknown to him.
- 2
informalA crowd of people.
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