car

車、自動車

道路で数人を運ぶ、４つの車輪とエンジンを備えた乗り物。

やさしい英語で： A vehicle with four wheels and an engine, used to carry a few people on roads.

• Our car is blue.
• She drove her car to work.
• Where did you park the car?

類義語： automobile, auto

よく使う表現： drive a car, by car, car park, a new car

車両、客車

人や荷物を運ぶ、列車を構成する一つの車両。

やさしい英語で： One of the separate sections of a train, carrying people or goods.

• We sat in the last car.
• The train has six passenger cars.
• They served breakfast in the dining car.

類義語： carriage, wagon, coach

よく使う表現： railroad car, dining car, freight car, sleeping car

かご、搬器

エレベーターやロープウェーで、人や荷物を載せて動く部分。

やさしい英語で： The part of a lift or cable transport system that moves while carrying people or goods.

• The elevator car stopped suddenly.
• Six people stepped into the lift car.
• The cable pulled the car up the steep slope.

類義語： cabin

よく使う表現： elevator car, lift car, cable car

貨車一両分

貨車を一両いっぱいにする量の荷物。

やさしい英語で： An amount of goods large enough to fill one railway wagon.

• They ordered a car of coal.
• Three cars of grain arrived yesterday.
• The factory receives twenty cars of gypsum each month.

使い方： a car of something (The mine shipped a car of coal.)

類義語： carload, wagonload

よく使う表現： a car of coal, a car of grain, a car of timber