单词 | people's car |
释义 | > as lemmaspeople's car people's car n. [after German Volkswagen (1937 in the company name, perhaps earlier)] an inexpensive car designed for mass sale. ΚΠ 1938 Sun (Baltimore) 7 Sept. 1/1 Award winners are Prof. Ferdinand Porsche, designer of the ‘Volkswagen’, Germany's new ‘people's car’. 1972 Buenos Aires Herald 2 Feb. 7/6 The rise of nationalism has brought demands for inexpensive ‘people's cars’ in Chile, Peru and Venezuela. 1990 Daily Commerc. News (Sydney) 9 Mar. 6/1 Volkswagen's striking beetle-shaped Futura research vehicle could turn out to be the ‘people's car’ of the 1990s. < as lemmas |
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