- (British English) (North American English cart)
a small vehicle with wheels that can be pushed or pulled along and is used for carrying things 手推车;手拉车 a shopping/supermarket/luggage trolley 购物/超市/行李手推车
Extra ExamplesTopics Shoppingb2, Sports: ball and racket sportsb2Passengers with trolleys piled high with luggage waited at the check-in desk. 旅客们推着行李摞得高高的手推车等候办理登机手续。 the problem of abandoned trolleys littering the countryside 乡间到处是被遗弃的手推车的问题
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- laden
- loaded
- drinks
- …
- load
- pile
- push
- …
- service
- dash
- on a/the trolley
- (British English) (US English cart, wagon)
a small table on very small wheels, used for carrying or serving food or drink (运或送食品、饮料的)小推车,台车 a drinks trolley 饮料车 a tea trolley 茶具车
Extra ExamplesThe waiter was pushing a laden sweet trolley towards our table. 服务员推着甜点车向我们这一桌走来。 They brought breakfast to the room on a trolley. 他们用手推车把早餐送到房间。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- laden
- loaded
- drinks
- …
- load
- pile
- push
- …
- service
- dash
- on a/the trolley
- (also streetcar)(both US English)(British English tram, tramcar)
a vehicle driven by electricity, that runs on rails along the streets of a town and carries passengers see also trackless trolley手推车;手拉车 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + trolley- catch
- ride
- take
- …
- bus
- car
- line
- …
Word Originearly 19th cent.: of dialect origin, perhaps from the verb troll.
Idioms
off your trolley
- (British English, informal)
crazy; stupid 失去理智;疯疯癫癫;愚蠢 If Wilcox is thinking of doing this deal he must be going totally off his trolley. 如果威尔科克斯想做这笔交易,他一定是完全疯了。