freewheeling的词源

英文词源

free-wheeling (adj.)

also freewheeling, 1903, from free wheel (1899, see free (adj.) + wheel (n.)); a bicycle wheel that turns even when not being pedaled, later from the name of a kind of automobile drive system that allowed cars to coast without being slowed by the engine. Figurative sense is from 1911.

中文词源

freewheeling：随心所欲的

来自freewheel, 滑行。引申义随心所欲的。

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