velocipede meaning in English
n.
1.旧式自行车;〔戏谑语〕自行车。
2.〔英俚〕儿童三轮脚踏车。
3.【铁路】轻便手压车(= handcar)。
Examples
- Today ' s bicycles are descendants of the earlier velocipede
今天的自行车是从早期的脚踏车发展而来的 - Because in middle youth he had often sat observing through a rondel of bossed glass of a multicoloured pane the spectacle offered with continual changes of the thoroughfare without , pedestrians , quadrupeds , velocipedes , vehicles , passing slowly , quickly , evenly , round and round and round the rim of a round precipitous globe
因为他在青壮年时,经常坐在屋里,隔着那嵌有浮凸饰的五彩圆玻璃窗子,观察外界大街上千变万化的景物:步行者四足动物脚踏车车辆,或急匆匆或慢悠悠或不紧不慢地经过,沿着垂直的圆球面的边缘滴溜溜滴溜溜滴溜溜地旋转。