词汇 | hackney carriage |
释义 | hackney carriage noun [ C ] (also Hackney carriage) uk/ˌhæk.ni ˈkær.ɪdʒ/ us/ˌhæk.ni ˈker.ɪdʒ/ formal (also hackney cab, Hackney cab)出租汽车 the official name for a taxi, especially a traditional London black taxi The report claimed that hackney carriages account for 16% of air pollution in the capital. He passed the ultimate taxi test, The Knowledge, and became eligible to drive a black hackney cab through the capital. She has been a taxi driver for three years but her hackney carriage licence ran out at the end of August. (尤指旧时的)出租马车 a carriage (= a road vehicle pulled by horses that was used in the past) that could be rented with a driver for making short journeys The Dickensian scene included two hackney carriages, the horses stamping impatiently.
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