| 词汇 | chevrolet |
| 词源 | Chevrolet. Swiss engineer Louis Chevrolet worked for U.S. car manufacturer William Durant as a racing driver. When Durant opened his new automobile company, he named it the Chevrolet Motor Company after Chevrolet because, he ex- plained, his driver’s name “had a musical sound and the ro- mance of foreign origin.” |
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