| 释义 |
semitruck in British English (ˌsɛmɪˈtrʌk) noun US an articulated lorry consisting of an engine pulling a semitrailer Also called (more fully): semitrailer truck semitruck in American English (ˈsemiˌtrʌk, ˈsemai-) nountractor-trailer Also: semi-truck Word origin [1970–75; semi( trailer) + truck1]This word is first recorded in the period 1970–75. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Heimlich maneuver, consciousness-raising, postmodernism, relational database, salsa |