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truckload

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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truck·load /ˈtrʌkləʊd $ -loʊd/ noun [countable]  TTAMOUNTthe amount that fills a truck []车装载量truckload of a truckload of oranges 一卡车橙子
Examples from the Corpus
truckloadSo astonishing are the anecdotes, so bizarre the characters, that eventually the reader has to suspend a truckload of disbelief.The driver, who is stuck with a truckload of oranges, called his company to tell of his ordeal.Each truckload of concrete arrived from the plant with a certificate listing its ingredients and proportions.They are given incentives to move to the hills and transported there in truckloads.As we discussed in the last chapter, businesses move truckloads of goods across borders every day.At the same time, the truckload of urinals began to climb the foothills.Dale, his logger, had cut two truckloads of wood for me, and that was it for now.But scores of state policemen met two truckloads of the farmers at a spot where a small stream crosses the mountain road.
truck·load nounChineseSyllable
Corpus truck the amount that a fills


truckload
truckload /ˈtrʌkləʊd $ -loʊd/ noun [countable]
the amount that fills a truck
    truckload of
    a truckload of oranges


truck·loadBrE /ˈtrʌkləʊd/ 🔊NAmE /ˈtrʌkloʊd/ 🔊 noun~ (of sb/sth) the amount of sb/sth that fills a truck (often used to express the fact that an amount is large) 货车荷载;一卡车(的量);大量