杰夫的一天 第55期：開車上班講解(6)

Sometimes it's called a transmission box, "box," and inside of that box there are little wheels called gears, "gears," 有時又稱它為變速箱(box)，變速箱里面有叫做齒輪(gears)的小輪子，

and depending on the gear you are in, we would say, depending on the gear you are using, you will either go very fast or not very fast, or you will go in reverse, "reverse." 我們會說，你跑的快還是慢，還是倒車(reverse)都決于你正在使用的齒輪。

To go into reverse means to go backwards — the car moves backwards. “To go into reverse”是倒車的意思。

Well, before I go anywhere, I have to "take the transmission out of park," "park." 那個，在我出發(fā)之前，我得“掛擋”。

Park is when the car is not going forward or going backwards. “Park”是汽車既不往前開也不往后開的狀態(tài)。

We say you put the transmission into park, and you take it out of park. 我們說你把車檔掛到駐車檔，然后你再掛擋。

And when you take it out of park, you either go forward or backwards. 你掛擋的時候，你要么往前開要么是往后開。

Well, here I'm going in reverse, and I "back out into the driveway." 那個，我在這里是掛倒車檔，并且“把車倒到車道上”。

To back out means to go backwards. “Back out”是“往后開”的意思。

Usually that verb, to back out, is used when you are talking about a car or a truck that is leaving a garage, and it's going in reverse — you back out of the garage. 在談到汽車或卡車離開車庫的時候通常會用到“Back out”這個動詞詞組，“it's going in reverse”就是說你將車倒出車庫。