trolley

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Related topics: Daily life, Utensils, Motor vehicles

ldoce_342_atrol·ley /ˈtrɒli $ ˈtrɑːli/ noun [countableC]

British EnglishBrED a large basket on wheels that you use for carrying bags, shopping etc 行李[購物]手推車 SYN American English cart

a supermarket trolley

超市購物手推車

→5 See picture of supermarket trolley BrE 【英】/shopping cart AmE 【美】超市購物手推車 →4 See picture of 見圖 trolley

2 British EnglishBrEDFU a small table on wheels used for serving food 〔送食物上桌的〕手推車，台車 SYN American English cart

a drinks trolley

飲料推車

the sweet trolley (=one for serving sweet dishes, cakes etc in a restaurant)

〔餐館中的〕甜點推車

3. American EnglishAmETTC an electric vehicle for carrying passengers which moves along the street on metal tracks 有軌電車 SYN British English tram

4. TTCa trolleybus 無軌電車

5. be off your trolley British EnglishBrE informal humorousCRAZY to be crazy 瘋瘋癫癫，失去理智

Examples from the Corpus

be off your trolley• Stuart Baxter must be off his trolley, sending some one like that.• I am sure some of the guys in my workshop think I am off my trolley.

Examples from the Corpus

trolley• At the other end the teachers were ready to hoist it on to a trolley for transportation to the basket lift.• Our picture shows Tommy Lundie with the new trolley.• Quickly, Mayli stepped out from the trolley.• Mrs Danby dumped the cat-food in the trolley and came close to me.• On the street, the veterans are cited for loitering, jaywalking, riding the trolley without paying.• I saw a dwarf selling plastic combs, hair-bands and bobby-pins from a wooden trolley.

Origin trolley

(1800-1900) Probably from troll “cart” ((17-19 centuries)), from troll “to roll” ((15-19 centuries))

trol·ley noun

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