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There was a series of explosions and the van burst into flames .
The raiders machine-gunned everyone in the bank before escaping in a van.抢劫者用机枪朝银行里的人扫射了一通后乘一辆厢式货车逃离。
The sound of the ice-cream van was borne into the office on the wind.冰激凌车的叮当声随风飘进了办公室。
The van drivers refused to cross the picket line .
Do you want help bringing your stuff in from the van?你要不要人帮你把东西从送货车上搬进来？

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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tipper
tipper truck
transit
travel trailer
trucking
ute
utility truck
wrecker

vannoun (FRONT)

 in the van of somethingUKformal
at the front, or in the most advanced position, of something: 在…方面领先，处在…的前沿
The US is in the van of the quest to establish contact with other planets.美国在探索与外层空间生物建立联系方面处于领先地位。

van | American Dictionary

van
noun[ C ]
us/væn/
a box-shaped road vehicle of medium size:
a delivery van

Examples of van

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From a mobile van and a static canteen she served refreshments to young men and women in uniform.
She also said, according to the translator, that her daughter had siekte van mal - ' sickness of the mind ', or mental illness.
They all had loud background noise and at first none save the neutron van seemed to have much intrinsic liveliness and complexity.
An ex-army van, fitted out with recording equipment, traveled the country collecting conversations.
Car-ownership indicated whether the household had the use of a car or van.
The date and time indicating when the vans would be in a particular neighbourhood were also listed on the flier.
The vans returned for another 'load' (pp. 361-85).
A mobile recruiting van accompanied the procession and a fluent bilingual individual acted as broadcaster to spread the message.
The rotary van pump is isolated from the chamber by a liquid nitrogen cold trap.
Household car access identifies whether the respondent lives in a household where there is a car or van available for his personal use.
118 dav id m. p ot ter and d oug l as van belle do not know about the aid program at all.
Assuming that a van ($35,000 over 5 years) and driver would be needed (7 hours/day at $14/hour plus benefits), the cost would be $1.25 per run.
Listening later, the distant approach of the van did contribute one of the more evocative sounds of the project, a serendipitous found object.
It called on members to be ' reckless ' in their evangelism and employed loud-speaker vans in its 1946 mission.
Less than a mile from the house, the van gently eased off the road and fell on its side in a shallow ditch.
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