用法学习： 1. Your clothes are in tatters, your plans are in ruins(in ruins 一片狼藉, 一片废墟 in a state of destruction. (be ~; lay ~; leave something ~.) The enemy army left the cities they attacked in ruins. The crops laid in ruins after the flood.), but you can console yourself that your room cannot be "in shambles( shambles 乱糟糟的. 乱作一团. a. A scene or condition of complete disorder or ruin: "The economy was in a shambles" The room was a shambles after the party. b. Great clutter or jumble; a total mess: made dinner and left the kitchen a shambles. in (a) shambles Fig. in a messy state; destroyed. After the earthquake, the town lay in shambles. The TV set was in a shambles after John tried to fix it. People are relocating air-con in our offices. leaving my favorite haven in shambles. )." The expression meaning "like a wreck" is "a shambles": "Your room is a shambles! It looks like a cyclone hit it." A shambles
used to be the counter in a meat stall and later, a bloody butchery
floor. Settings like the throne room at the end of Hamlet or a
disastrous battlefield strewn with body parts can be called "a shambles"
in the traditional sense. Now the phrase usually means just "a mess. 2. 千万别觉得, 千万别那么想, 千万别以为, 切不可以为: Don't think for a second that. Don't for one second think that, Don't think about it at all. I don't want you to think about something for even one brief second. I want you to keep that idea out of your head.
The pollen/cabin filter plays an important role in your vehicle. The pollen filter is replaced as part of your manufacturer service schedule, but should be replaced also once your vehicle is out of warranty at regular intervals to ensure if performs correctly. A pollen filter reduces contaminants 污染物 entering the passenger cabin and these contaminants enter through the Heating Ventilation and Airconditioning System. Should the pollen filter be left for too long before replacing it will become clogged, choking the airflow entering the vehicle. A pollen filter that is severely clogged will cause a reduction in the performance of your airconditioning and a musty smell. Air filter: A particulate air filter is a device composed of fibrous materials which removes solid particulates such as dust, pollen, mold, and bacteria from the air. A chemical air filter consists of an absorbent or catalyst for the removal of airborne molecular contaminants such as volatile organic compounds or ozone. Air filters are used in applications where air quality is important, notably in building ventilation systems and in engines. The cabin air filter is typically a pleated-paper filter that is placed in the outside-air intake for the vehicle's passenger compartment. Some of these filters are rectangular and similar in shape to the combustion air filter. Others are uniquely shaped to fit the available space of particular vehicles' outside-air intakes. Being a relatively recent addition to automobile equipment, this filter is often overlooked, and can greatly reduce the effectiveness of the vehicle's air conditioning and heating performance. Clogged or dirty cabin air filters can significantly reduce airflow from the cabin vents, as well as introduce allergens into the cabin air stream. The poor performance of these filters is obscured by manufacturers by not using the MERV rating system. Some people mistakenly believe that some of these are HEPA filters.
wrecker yard: 1. wrecker: I. A vehicle used to tow away broken-down cars, see tow truck. II. Wrecking, a synonym for demolition, and related meanings: A person who participates in sabotage; A person who conducts a sexual affair with another married person, sabotogaing (wrecking) the partner's marriage, often called a homewrecker; Wrecking (Soviet crime), a crime of industrial or economic sabotage. 2. The Receiver of Wreck is an official who administers law dealing with wreck and salvage in some countries having a British administrative heritage. In the UK, the "Receiver of Wreck", a post defined under the Merchant Shipping Act 1995, is an official of the British Government whose main task is to administer the law in relation to Wreck and Salvage. The main task of the Receiver of Wreck is to process reports of wreck, in the interest of both finder and owner. This involves researching ownership and working with the finder, owner, archaeologists, museums, and other interested parties. The process of reporting wreck provides legal owners the opportunity to be reunited with their property and to ensure that law-abiding finders of wreck receive appropriate recognition in the form of a salvage award. There are thousands of wrecked vessels and aircraft around the UK coast. Many wreck sites are protected for their historic importance or because they are considered dangerous. If you recover wreck material within UK territorial waters, or bring wreck material into UK territorial waters, you must report it to the Receiver of Wreck. This guide explains the roles and responsibilities of the Receiver of Wreck and the law relating to wreck and salvage. You will also find information about the responsibilities and rights of wreck owners and salvors, and how to report wreck material. There are also contact details for organisations that can provide help, advice and information on wrecks. 3. Vehicle recovery is the recovery of any vehicle to another place, generally speaking with a commercial vehicle known as a recovery vehicle, tow truck or spectacle lift. Recovery can take the form of general recovery, normally of broken down vehicles, or a Statutory Recovery at the request of the police using police powers conferred by Parliament using an Act. Recovery operators are the people who undertake the recovery. They are known by different names around the world, including 'patrols,' 'tow men' and 'wrecker drivers'. Some are the people used by the motoring organisations to rescue their members. A small percentage will be on the payroll of the motoring organisation and will work exclusively for them. Although there have always been auto repair shops and garages who towed or recovered any vehicles, it is only really in the last fifty years that vehicle recovery has become an industry distinct from the auto repair trade. Many are still involved in workshop repairs, but an increasing number, if they cannot repair the vehicle by the roadside, will transport it to another repairer. Although there are some large organisations operating hundreds of recovery vehicles, most are family businesses operating typically between 10 to 50 vehicles. Lastly there are operators like Highway Authorities and other government bodies, operators of local recovery schemes (contra flows, etc.) and large fleet operators who recover their own vehicles. 4. A wrecking yard (Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian English), scrapyard (British English) or junkyard (American English) is the location of a business in dismantling where wrecked or decommissioned 退役的, 注销了的, 不再服务的 vehicles are brought, their usable parts are sold for use in operating vehicles, while the unusable metal parts, known as scrap metal parts废铜烂铁, are sold to metal-recycling companies. Other terms include wreck yard, wrecker's yard, salvage yard, breakers yard, dismantler and scrapheap. In the United Kingdom, car salvage yards are known as car breakers, while motorcycle salvage yards are known as bike breakers. The most common type of wreck yards are automobile wreck yards, but junkyards for motorcycles, bicycles, small airplanes and boats exist too. A scrapyard废品收购站, 废品回收站 is a recycling center that buys and sells scrap metal. Scrapyards are effectively a scrap metal brokerage. Scrapyards will often buy electronics, appliances, and metal vehicles. Scrapyards will sell their accumulations of metals either to refineries or larger scrap brokers. Metal theft is committed so thieves can sell stolen copper or other stolen valuable metals to scrapyards. Many salvage yards operate on a local level—when an automobile is severely damaged, has malfunctioned beyond repair, or not worth the repair, the owner may sell it to a junkyard; in some cases—as when the car has become disabled in a place where derelict cars are not allowed to be left—the car owner will pay the wrecker to haul the car away. Salvage yards also buy most of the wrecked报废的, derelict and abandoned 废弃的 vehicles that are sold at auction from police impound storage lots, and often buy vehicles from insurance tow yards as well. The salvage yard will usually tow the vehicle from the location of its purchase to the yard, but occasionally vehicles are driven in. At the salvage yard the automobiles are typically arranged in rows, often stacked on top of one another. Some yards keep inventories in their offices, as to the usable parts in each car, as well as the car's location in the yard. Many yards have computerized inventory systems. Often parts for which there is high demand are removed from cars and brought to the salvage yard's warehouse. Then a customer who asks for a specific part can get it immediately, without having to wait for the salvage yard employees to remove that part. Some salvage yards expect customers to remove the part themselves, or allow this at a substantially reduced price compared to having the junkyard's staff remove it. This style of yard is often referred to as a "You Pull It" yard. However, it is more common for a customer to call in and inquire whether the specific item he/she needs is available. If the yard has the requested item, the customer is usually asked to leave a deposit and to come to pick up the part at a later time. The part is typically installed by the customer or agent ("the customer's mechanic"); however, some salvage yards also provide installation services. The parts typically dismantled from automobiles are generally any that can be re-sold such as the light assemblies (commonly known as just "lights", e.g. headlights, blinkers, taillights), seats, parts of the exhaust system, mirrors, hubcaps etc. Late model vehicles will often have entire halves or sections of the body removed and stored on shelves as inventory. Other major parts such as the engine and transmission are often removed and sold, usually to auto-parts companies that will rebuild the part and resell it with a warranty, or will sell the components as-is 原样不动的 in used condition(as-is (idiomatic, of an object) 原封不动的, 照原样的. 是什么样就是什么样 In its present state or condition, especially as a contractual condition of sale. I bought the car as is, so the seller was within his legal rights to refuse to repair it when it broke down after two days. wiki: As is is a legal term used to disclaim some implied warranties for an item being sold. Certain types of implied warranties must be specifically disclaimed, such as the implied warranty of title. "As is" denotes that the seller is selling, and the buyer is buying an item in whatever condition it presently exists, and that the buyer is accepting the item "with all faults", whether or not immediately apparent. This is the classic "buyer beware" situation, where the careful buyer should take the time to examine the item before accepting it, or obtain expert advice. On the other hand, the phrase "as is" does not disclaim express warranties, such as those created by the seller's description of an item. In other words, the item may be sold "as is," but if the item does not conform to the seller's description, the buyer has a right to reject it. as it stands 在现在的情况下 In the current state or circumstance. As it stands, this company has no way of breaking into the European market. ), either with or without warranty. Other, usually very large, junkyards will rebuild and sell such parts themselves. Unbroken windshields and windows may also be removed intact and resold to car-owners needing replacements. Some salvage yards will sell damaged or wrecked but repairable vehicles to amateur car builders, or older vehicles to collectors, who will restore ("rebuild") the car for their own use or entertainment, or sometimes for re-sale. These cars are known as "rebuilders". Once vehicles in a wrecking yard have no more usable parts, the hulks are usually sold to a scrap-metal processor, who will usually crush the bodies on-site at the yard's premises using a mobile baling press, Shredder, or flattener, with final disposal occurring within a hammer mill which literally smashes the vehicle remains into fist sized chunks. These chunks are then sold by multiple tons for further processing and recycling.
Holden发布small SUV(Holden launches small SUV Trax from $23,490): HOLDEN'S vital new small SUV will start from $23,490 when the Trax rolls into showrooms next month. Trax will be offered in two trim levels配置, the LS and LTZ, ranging in price from $23,490 to $27,990. With sales slowing in the large car segment, despite strong recent performances from the VF Commodore, the Trax will be pivotal to Holden's ongoing sales success spread across a range of genres. Standard equipment标准设备 includes a seven-inch touch-screen with MyLink embedded apps, rear view camera, rear parking sensors, six airbags and Bluetooth phone and audio streaming. "Trax offers a great package at an exceptional price point and we believe it will pose an immediate challenge to established models when it arrives in Holden dealerships in September. While Holden has the Nissan Dualis, Mitsubishi ASX and Hyundai ix35 in its sights, the Trax is more likely going to come up against ( [come/go/run/team] up against somebody/something 竞争 in opposition to someone or something. In the music competition, Tyler was up against some of the best singers in the country. Next week, our field hockey team will go up against the best team in this area. Let's team up against Paul and Tony in the footrace. We came up against a very strong team. ) soon-to-be-launch new European small SUVs like the Peugeot 2008, Renault Captur and the Ford EcoSport. Trim Level/package: Vehicle designation assigned by vehicle manufacturers that represent specific equipment packages. An automobile model (or car model or model of car, and typically abbreviated to just "model") is a particular brand of vehicle sold under a marque by a manufacturer, usually within a range of models, usually of different sizes or capabilities. From an engineering point of view, a particular car model is usually defined and/or constrained by the use of a particular car chassis/bodywork combination or the same monocoque, although sometimes this is not the case, and the model represents a marketing segment. A model may also be referred to as a nameplate, specifically when referring to the product from the point of view of the manufacturer, especially a model over time. This engineering frame may have derivatives, giving rise to more than one body style for a particular car model. For example, the same model can be offered as a four-door sedan (saloon), a two-door coupé, a station wagon (estate), or even as a folding-roof convertible, all derived from essentially the same engineering frame. An example of this is the BMW 3-series. Previously, automakers (especially American) had offered lots of options to give customers much flexibility, however this has largely been discarded放弃, 抛弃 in favor of trim levels (also known as grades and sometimes as option packages), which offers manufacturing and marketing simplicity. A model may be offered in varying trim levels, which denotes different configurations 配置, 配备 of standard equipment and amenities. For instance, the base trim基本款 may have only basic features (wheel covers, cloth seats) compared to the top-of-the-line model顶级配置, 顶配 (alloy wheels, leather upholstery). Some stand-alone options may not be part of packages, including factory options such as a moonroof or electronic stability control, and dealer options such as a roof rack and hood deflector. The term "option" is somewhat misleading, as vehicles are often sent from the factory to the dealership having several popular options as de facto-standard equipment. For instance, most stock models of entry-level 入门级 luxury cars on dealer lots contain leather upholstery and a moonroof, as the base vehicle without these amenities (known as a "stripper") is usually available only by special order from the factory (frequently for fleet use such as for taxicabs). Companies and dealerships follow this practice since considering these features as options is more lucrative than raising the price of the model and including these as "standard" equipment. A delete option is an item that the customer can order not to be included in the car, rather than the opposite. It is common for any specific car model to carry additional badges or lettering to announce its trim level. For example, the Toyota Camry's trim levels: Camry CE (Classic Edition), Camry LE (Luxury Edition), and Camry XLE (Extra Luxury Edition). Other manufacturers prefer names rather than alphanueric initials for trim levels; the Renault Scénic range includes entry-level trim badged Renault Scénic Authentique, the next model up badged Renault Scénic Expression, then Renault Scénic Dynamique and finally the luxury Renault Scénic Privilège. The highest trim level顶配, 最高配置 is sometimes seen as slightly removed from the rest of the range. For instance the BMW M high-performance variant is often marketed separately from the regular lineup. Offering an array of body styles, mechanical specifications and trim levels allow manufacturers to target the same car model to different market niches. For example, an inexpensive base trim three-door hatchback is targeted at 面向...人员 motorists on a budget such as students, while the mid-range中级配置 sedan with the comfort package may suit the needs of a middle-aged family, and the expensive high-performance variant may catch the eye of the sportier-minded auto enthusiast, all of the three variants sharing the same nameplate with a common platform and engineering. An example of this is the Ford Focus. Often in the later model years of a particular generation of vehicle, there have been "special editions" to cut down on 减少, 砍去 the number of options as production winds down( wind down (something) 缓下来, 慢下来, 放缓, 放慢. to end or cause something to end gradually. to start running or operating slower. The storm finally began to wind down after four hours of heavy rain. We wound down our affairs in Europe and left for home. Things will begin to wind down at the end of the summer. As things wind down, life will be a lot easier. The clock wound down and finally stopped.). A trim package(更多是非功能性的配置, 如漆, 座椅, 内饰, 雾灯, 天窗等) (sometimes called an appearance package) is an automotive package composed by a set of cosmetic (mostly non-functional) embellishments to a vehicle. In some cases the trim package may include a specific model or ending name. Such packages may be characterized by the use of a famous fashion designer's name, including examples as the Pierre Cardin AMC Javelin, the Oleg Cassini AMC Matador, or the Lincoln Continental in Givenchy or Bill Blass versions. An example of a trim package might be that you get, a rear spoiler, upgraded cloth seats, and upgraded wheels, while another package might have cruise control, a sunroof, fog lights, and leather upholstery. 网友说: Depending on how you look at it, a trim level is either an easy way for a buyer to get a group of options that are often ordered together, or it's a way to force you to buy options you don't really want (for example, I'd want fog lights and cruise control, but I don't care about the sunroof. But I'd have to buy it to get the stuff I want).
