pillion: [16] The word pillion long predates the invention of the motorcycle. It originally denoted a ‘small light saddle on a horse’, particularly one placed behind a main saddle. It is ultimately of Latin origin, but it reached English via a Celtic route. English borrowed it from Scottish Gaelic pillean, a diminutive form of peall ‘covering, cushion’. This in turn came from Latin pellis ‘skin’ (source of English pelt ‘skin’ and related to English film). => film, pelt
pillion (n.)
kind of saddle, c. 1500, of Celtic origin (compare Irish pillin, Gaelic pillin), ultimately from Latin pellis "skin, pelt" (see film (n.)).
双语例句
1. As a learner rider you must not carry a pillion passenger.
作为摩托车初学者，切勿后座载人。
来自柯林斯例句
2. She rode pillion on her son's motor bike.
她坐在儿子摩托车的后座上。
来自柯林斯例句
3. He drove his motorbike, with me riding pillion.
他开摩托车, 我坐在后座上.
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4. I had a terrifying journey on the pillion seat of a Honda 750.
我坐在本田750摩托车后座上有一次吓人的旅程.
来自《简明英汉词典》
5. I was riding Kevin's wife's bike. She took up the pillion seat behind Kev.