edsel
- n. 艾德赛尔（人名，表示富裕；也指福特公司出品的一款汽车名）
双语例句
- 1. The company was still reeling from the Edsel fiasco a couple of years back.
- 鉴于几年前,在埃德·塞尔事件中惨败,公司仍处在余震之中.
来自辞典例句
- 2. In November 1893 , Clara gave birth to their first and only child, Edsel.
- 1893年11月, 克拉拉生了他们唯一的孩子艾德赛.
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英文词源
- Edsel
- notoriously unsuccessful make of car, introduced 1956 and named for Henry and Clara Ford's only child; figurative sense of "something useless and unwanted" is almost as old. Edsel is a family name, attested since 14c. (William de Egeshawe), from High Edser in Ewhurst, Surrey.