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Related topics: Motor vehiclesˌspare ˈtyre British English, spare tire American English noun [countable] 1. TTCan additional wheel with a tyre on it, that you keep in a car to use if another tyre gets damaged 备用轮胎2. FATthe fat around someone’s waist – used humorously 腰间赘肉,肥胖的腰 〔幽默用法〕Examples from the Corpusspare tyre• Thank goodness for my spare tyre, I can afford to lose a bit of that.• If only he took as much exercise as I did he wouldn't have that spare tyre, I thought unsympathetically.• Their companion, in his 20s, had an old, noisy van with a smiling face logo on the spare tyre.ˌspare ˈtyre nounChineseSyllable on wheel you additional Corpus it, tyre a that with an |