英语词汇rolls-royce的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	rolls-royce
词源	Rolls-Royce. Regarded by many for many years as the best car in the world, the Rolls-Royce is named for Charles Stewart Rolls and Henry Royce, who first built it in 1904. Royce was the mechanical genius, a manufacturer of dynamos and electric cranes before Rolls, an auto dealer, heard of a new model auto Royce had built and sought him out.
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