原级:jalopy
1. It is a world of jalopies and ponytails, and waitresses on roller skates – and a vision of China's future.
这是一个充斥着汽车和马尾辫的世界,还有脚穿溜冰鞋的女服务员。这也是中国未来的一瞥。
2. That is what made the Greatest Generation great. This money can`t just go to patch up our jalopies.
这也是大萧条之所以伟大的原因,这笔钱不能仅仅只用于修补我们过去的过失。
3. Just about the only ships willing to risk the voyage are small, wooden, putt-putt freighters from India, essentially floating jalopies from another era.
愿意来此地冒险的大都是来自印度的轻型木制小货船,这些船基本上都是些老掉牙的陈年古董。
4. I have hitchhiked in 1928-model jalopies, ridden in fuming buses and rettling milk trains.
我搭便车旅行的时候搭乘过一九二八年型的老爷车、冒烟的公共汽车以及嘎嘎作响的运牛奶火车。
5. Americans hit golf balls on the moon and drove around in lunar jalopies cars and golf, being two American obsessions.
美国人登上月球后,也就是挥杆打了打高尔夫球,开着破旧的月球车到处转了转,毕竟车和高尔夫是美国人所痴迷的两样东西。