單詞
commute
英 [k?'mju?t]
美[k?'mj?t]
基本信息
- vt. 減刑；交換；用……交換；使……變成
- vi. 通勤；代償
- n. 通勤（口語）
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詞態(tài)變化
復(fù)數(shù):?commutes;第三人稱單數(shù):?commutes;過去式:?commuted;過去分詞:?commuted;現(xiàn)在分詞:?commuting;
中文詞源
commute 通勤往返，代償
com-, 強調(diào)。-mut, 改變，交換，詞源同move, mutable. 通常指固定往返于兩地的人。
英文詞源
- commute (v.)
- mid-15c., "to change, transform," from Latin commutare "to often change, to change altogether," from com-, intensive prefix (see com-), + mutare "to change" (see mutable). Sense of "make less severe" is 1630s. Sense of "go back and forth to work" is 1889, from commutation ticket "season pass" (on a railroad, streetcar line, etc.), from commute in its sense of "to change one kind of payment into another" (1795), especially "to combine a number of payments into a single one." Related: Commuted; commuting.
雙語例句
- 1. The average Los Angeles commute is over 60 miles a day.
- 洛杉磯的平均上下班路程為每天60多英里。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. He's going to commute.
- 他打算乘長途車往返上下班。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. We chose to live out of town and commute to work every day.
- 我們決意住在城外,每天趕路上班.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 4. There's nothing quite like a real train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute.
- 沒有什么能象一位現(xiàn)實中的火車售票員那樣為日常的上下班交通線增加些色彩.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 5. I spend much less time on my commute to work now.
- 我現(xiàn)在工作的往返時間要節(jié)省好多.
來自超越目標(biāo)英語 第3冊
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