truck

camion

Grand véhicule routier servant à transporter des marchandises ou à tirer une lourde remorque.

En anglais simple : A large road vehicle used for carrying goods or pulling a heavy trailer.

• The truck is full of boxes.
• Two trucks delivered wood to the building site.
• Who parked that truck outside our house?

Synonymes : lorry

Expressions courantes : delivery truck, truck driver, drive a truck

transporter par camion

Acheminer des marchandises quelque part en camion.

En anglais simple : To carry goods somewhere in a large road vehicle.

• They truck food to the camp.
• The company trucked supplies across the border.
• Sand is trucked in from a nearby quarry.

Comment l'utiliser : truck something to/from somewhere (They truck fresh fruit from the farms to the city.)

Synonymes : transport, haul

Expressions courantes : truck something in, truck something out, truck something to somewhere

conduire un camion

Conduire un camion, surtout comme métier et sur de longues distances.

En anglais simple : To drive a large goods vehicle, especially over long distances as a job.

• My uncle trucks for a living.
• She trucked through the night to reach Denver.
• He has been trucking for twenty years.

Comment l'utiliser : truck across/through somewhere (He trucks across the country every week.)

Synonymes : drive a truck

Expressions courantes : truck across something, truck for someone, truck all night

continuer à avancer, filer

Avancer vite ou continuer avec énergie malgré les difficultés.

En anglais simple : To move along quickly or keep going with energy despite difficulties.

• We were trucking along the road.
• She trucked past us with her heavy backpack.
• Despite the setbacks, the team kept on trucking.

Synonymes : keep going, press on

Contraires : stop

Expressions courantes : keep on truck, truck along, truck down something