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pillion

adverb
🔊/ˈpɪliən/
🔊/ˈpɪliən/
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  1. sitting on a seat for a passenger behind the driver of a motorcycle摩托车后座
    • He drove his motorbike, with me riding pillion.他开摩托车，我坐在后座上。
    Topics Transport by car or lorryc2

pillion

noun
🔊/ˈpɪliən/
🔊/ˈpɪliən/
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  1. a seat for a passenger behind the driver of a motorcycle摩托车后座
    • a pillion passenger/seat摩托车后座乘客；摩托车后座
    • I made the whole journey on the pillion.我一路都坐在摩托车后座上。
    Topics Transport by car or lorryc2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + pillion
    • ride
    pillion + noun
    • seat
    • passenger
    • rider
    • …
    preposition
    • on the pillion
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    Word Originlate 15th cent. (denoting a light saddle): from Scottish Gaelic pillean, Irish pillín ‘small cushion’, diminutive of pell, from Latin pellis ‘skin’.