单词 | left-hand driving |
释义 | > as lemmasleft-hand driving left-hand driving n. †(a) the action or practice of driving a left-hand drive vehicle (obsolete); (b) the action, practice, or system of driving on the left-hand side of the road (usually using a right-hand drive system or vehicle); cf. right-hand driving n. at right hand n. and adj. Compounds. ΚΠ 1901 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 10 Feb. 3/4 All our electric machines have left hand seats, and my personal opinion is that the left hand driving should be enforced in towns. 1920 Western Gaz. 25 June 12/7 The exposure of the dangers resulting from left-hand driving, which means that the driver is neither able to signal to following vehicles nor to see round the off-side of vehicles immediately ahead. 1924 Canton (Ohio) Daily News 9 Mar. i. 17/1 We have laughed at the English for their left hand driving. 1956 Collier's Year-bk. 670/1 Sweden is the only Scandinavian country with left-hand driving. 1992 M. G. Lay Ways of World vi. 200 Although a government commission recommended left-hand driving for France in 1909, its advice was ignored. 2003 Brownsville (Texas) Herald 25 Oct. c8/4 The entire module slides through a slot in the dash for quick adaptation to right- or left-hand driving. < as lemmas |
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