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单词 freewheeler
释义

freewheeler

/friːˈwiːlə /
noun
1A bicycle with wheels that are able to revolve freely when no power is being applied to the pedals: you can flip the rear wheel around and turn it into a single-speed freewheeler...
  • Her small old-fashioned English woman's bike was not a freewheeler.
  • Have you bought a bike and what's it like? A freewheeler or what?
  • While skilled riders might be able to stop a fixed gear bike on dry pavement as quickly as a freewheeler can, not all riders have the experience to do so in an emergency.
2A person who is not concerned with rules, conventions, or the consequences of their actions: he’s kind of a freewheeler, and always was...
  • The new Nationalist MPs were independent spirits and social freewheelers, and life became one long party.
  • He was in his element as a freewheeler, alternating between being benevolent and being boss.
  • She had been a freewheeler from the age of eighteen, but she had always known that she hankered for security.
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