mudflap 擋泥板（掛在車輪後方的橡膠片，多見於卡車）｜字脈

1擋泥板（掛在車輪後方的橡膠片，多見於卡車）
A mudflap is a piece of rubber, or sometimes plastic, that hangs down behind a vehicle's wheel. Its job is to stop the tyre from throwing mud, water, and little stones onto the car, or onto the cars behind. You see them most on trucks and vans, hanging quite low. On some cars they are small flaps at the back of the wheel arch. Though actually, it is not the same thing as a mudguard: a mudflap hangs loose behind the wheel; a mudguard is the curved cover that sits over the wheel, like on a bicycle. American English mud flap as two words as often as one.

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組成From mud + flap: a flap for keeping mud off.

mudthe first half — the wet earth it is meant to block
flapthe second half — a loose piece that hangs and moves
mudguardanother mud- word for keeping mud off a vehicle, but a mudguard sits over the wheel rather than hanging behind it

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。

mudflapnoun/ˈmʌdˌflæp/

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A rectangular flap mounted near the wheel of a motor vehicle (especially a truck) to prevent mud or rocks from being thrown up (by the wheel), either onto the body panels or into the path of vehicles following behind.
- Yohji Yamamoto showed Alpine knits with cropped black trousers, fresh-looking coats in vanilla-colored wool, and knits and other wool colors embellished with the sort of female pinup images you see on old gas-station calendars or on the mudflaps of an 18-wheeler.

摘錄自英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。