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drive a truck
truck 指卡车、货车；drive 表示驾驶，常用搭配。
He drives a truck for a living.
他以开卡车为生。
卡车；货车
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卡车；货车
An automotive vehicle used for carrying goods; a lorry.
He drives a truck for a living.
他以开卡车为生。
小轮或滚轮,特指炮架的车轮。
A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun carriage.
适合运输的汽车
an automotive vehicle suitable for hauling
旗杆顶端的球。
The ball on top of a flagpole.
一种手推车,底部有架子和两个低轮子,顶部有把手,用于搬运箱子或其他重物
a handcart that has a frame with two low wheels and a ledge at the bottom and handles at the top; used to move crates or other heavy objects
The farmer loaded the hay onto the truck before sunset.
日落前农夫把干草装上了卡车。
We rented a small truck to move our furniture to the new apartment.
我们租了一辆小卡车把家具搬到新公寓。
The delivery truck arrived at the warehouse at nine in the morning.
送货车早上九点到达仓库。
truck 指卡车、货车；drive 表示驾驶，常用搭配。
He drives a truck for a living.
他以开卡车为生。
by truck 表示运输方式，名词前不用冠词。
The goods were delivered by truck.
这些货物是用卡车运送的。
load A with B 表示把B装入A；也可说 load B onto A。
They loaded the truck with boxes.
他们把箱子装上了卡车。
Not this
There are many truck on the road.
Use this
There are many trucks on the road.
truck 是可数名词，复数必须加 -s。汉语的“很多卡车”没有词形变化，数量靠“很多”表示，所以学习者容易漏掉复数；英语则必须用名词复数形式体现。
Not this
He bought a truck of apples.
Use this
He bought a truckload of apples.
汉语可以说“一卡车苹果”，但英语中 truck 是车辆本身，不能直接用作容量单位；表示“一车（货物）”要用复合词 truckload，即“a truckload of + 名词”。“a truck of apples”容易被理解成“一辆由苹果构成的卡车”。
Not this
He drives truck to work.
Use this
He drives a truck to work.
truck 是可数名词，单数形式不能单独出现，前面要有限定词（如 a）。汉语“开卡车”没有冠词，因为汉语没有冠词系统，所以学习者容易漏掉 a；此处指开某辆卡车去上班，需说 a truck。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
自卸卡车
The dump truck tipped its load of gravel onto the road.
自卸卡车把一车碎石倒在路上。
消防车
A fire truck rushed past us with its siren blaring.
一辆消防车鸣着警报从我们身边疾驰而过。
皮卡车
He loaded the furniture into the back of his pickup truck.
他把家具装进了他的皮卡车车厢里。
卡车司机
Her uncle is a long-haul truck driver.
她叔叔是一名长途卡车司机。
卡车服务站
We stopped for coffee at a truck stop on the highway.
我们在高速公路旁的一家卡车服务站停下来喝了杯咖啡。
一卡车的量
They ordered a truckload of sand for the construction site.
他们为建筑工地订购了一卡车的沙子。
与…毫无瓜葛；拒不与…来往
I'll have no truck with people who spread rumors.
我绝不同散布谣言的人打交道。
（指货物）来路不正，常指偷来的
This watch is so cheap that it must have fallen off the back of a truck.
这块手表便宜得离谱，准是来路不正。
坚持下去；继续努力
Even though work is tough, you just have to keep on trucking.
虽然工作辛苦，你还是得咬牙坚持下去。
卡车的散热器上破了个洞。出自C.W. McCall的1975年歌曲《Convoy》，这首歌是美国卡车司机CB电台文化的经典代表。
A delivery truck pulled up to the warehouse.
一辆送货卡车在仓库前停了下来。
Use truck naturally, then get feedback on meaning, tone, grammar, and phrasing.
Revisit a common error or keep this word in your review list.
卡车叫truck，可记音似“踹客”：想象司机一脚踹下油门，开着卡车去送货，货物塞满车斗。
语域：neutral 常见场景：road freight、delivery、daily conversation truck 作名词时最常指卡车或货车，属于中性常用词，多用于物流运输、送货等场景，日常谈话和书面语中都比较常见。其他如“手推车”“旗杆顶球”等义项使用范围较窄，正式场合并不常用。
These six words all rhyme with truck (/trʌk/): they share the final /ʌk/ sound and the spelling 'uck'. Watch out for lookalikes that sound different, such as trunk (/trʌŋk/), truce (/truːs/), and true (/truː/).
Dictionary facts from DICTIONARY_API_DEV, ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.