| 释义 |
motorcade orig. U.S.|ˈməʊtəkeɪd|
[f. motor n. + -cade.]
A procession of motor vehicles.
1913Arizona Republican (Phoenix) 5 June 2/4 The motorcade can make its music self supporting and donate large and salubrious gobs of melody to the natives at all points along the line. Ibid. 4 July 4/2 This ‘motorcade’ came from a suggestion thrown out by the sporting editor of the Republican. It was immediately accepted by several local automobile owners, whereupon, the sporting editor [sc. Lyle Abbott] became the busiest man in Phoenix and hammered away at the ‘motorcade’ a term which, by the way, he had invented sometime before in order that newspapers might keep pace with the developments of vehicular transportation. 1924N. & Q. 19 Apr. 288/1 A parade of motor cars..was termed in the local [Florida] papers a ‘motorcade’. 1928in Amer. Speech (1930) VI. 155 The North Dakota farmers' motorcade started to-day on its long drive to the Republican Convention at Kansas City. 1933Sun (Baltimore) 19 Aug. 3/1 The action was taken after a telegram from the Governor was read to workers who came into Mahanoy City in a motorcade. 1936[see -cade]. 1942S. L. A. Marshall Armies on Wheels vi. 99 A motor-cade in which the cars become bogged down. 1953Times 13 July 3/5 The word ‘motorcade’..is..no novelty. Some years before the war it was employed—and perhaps coined—by the Salvation Army in advertisements of a procession of cars which bore the Army's principal officers on a tour of the main towns of the country. 1969Wall St. Jrnl. 28 Jan. 1/6 He rides in Presidential motorcades. 1972Guardian 25 Oct. 2 The old-style motorcade..is hard to beat as a campaigning technique. 1974Northern Times (Golspie, Sutherland) 23 Aug. 7/6 Mr. George Reid, M.P. for Clackmannan and East Stirling, accompanied by Mr. Sutherland, will be in a motorcade covering Helmsdale, Brora, Golspie, Dornoch and Bonar-Bridge. |