| 释义 |
motordom|ˈməʊtədəm|
[f. motor n. + -dom.]
The realm or world of motors; motor vehicles, the people who use them, or those who deal in them, considered collectively.
1900Captain III. 225/1 In the world of motordom. 1909Westm. Gaz. 2 Nov. 2/3 There is scarcely a woman in London who has not had to sacrifice the cadences of talk to the Moloch of Motordom. 1910[see cracker 4 b]. 1916W. J. Locke Wonderful Year vi. 84 Fashionable motordom halted at the Hôtel des Grottes. 1961L. Mumford City in Hist. xv. 474 The ‘progressive’ metropolises of motordom, like Los Angeles, exhibit..all the urban evils of the palaeotechnic period. |