| 单词 |
road rage |
| 释义 |
road rage, n.
Brit. |ˈrəʊd ˌreɪdʒ|, U.S. |ˈroʊd ˈˌreɪdʒ|
[‹ road n. + rage n., probably after roid rage n. at roid n. Compounds.]
Violent anger attributed to the stress and frustration of driving a motor vehicle; esp. (an act of) violence committed by one road user against another which is provoked by the supposedly objectionable driving of the victim.
1988St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 2 Apr. b1 A fit of ‘road rage’ has landed a man in jail, accused of shooting a woman passenger who's [sic] car had ‘cut him off’ on the highway. 1995Independent 30 Jan. 2/8 Almost 90 per cent of drivers questioned in an Automobile Association survey have suffered ‘road rage’ in the past year. 1997Daily Mail 27 Mar. 3/1 An angry woman doctor repeatedly rammed her Mercedes into another car in a road rage attack, a court heard yesterday. 2000T. Clancy Bear & Dragon lix. 959 Gettysburg glided to a halt within sight of the Woodrow Wilson bridge, and had to wait for traffic to be halted on the D.C. Beltway. This resulted in the usual road rage. |
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