gear是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 a device, often consisting of connecting sets of wheels with teeth (= points) around the edge, that controls how much power from an engine goes to the moving parts of a machine -- 檔，排檔；傳動裝置

  • Does your car have five or six gears? 你的車是四檔的還是五檔的？

  • I couldn't find reverse gear. 我找不著倒檔了。

  • The car should be in gear (= with its gears in position, allowing the vehicle to move). 車檔應該掛著。

  • When you start a car you need to be in first (US also low) gear. 汽車啓動時應該使用一檔。

  • figurative After a slow start, the leadership campaign suddenly shifted into top gear (= started to advance very quickly). 爭奪領導權的競選活動啓動緩慢，但是後來卻突然開足了馬力密鑼緊鼓地進行起來。

• 1 the equipment, clothes, etc. that you use to do a particular activity -- （從事某活動的）裝備，用具，衣服

  • fishing/camping gear 釣魚／露營用具

  • Police in riot gear (= protective clothing) arrived to control the protesters. 身著防暴衣的警察趕來制服抗議者。

  • She wears all the latest gear. 她穿的衣服都是最新潮的。

• 2 drugs -- （同 drugs）

  • The traffickers knew that there would always be someone willing to move the gear. 非法販賣者們知道總有人願意轉移毒品。