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Commute Sense Change 6970.Commute 英 Kə'Mjuːt]美 Kə'Mjʊt 释义

正面 6970.commute
英 [kə'mjuːt]美 [kə'mjʊt]

背面
释义:
vt. 减刑;交换;用……交换;使……变成vi. 通勤;代偿n. 通勤(口语)
例句:
1. The average Los Angeles commute is over 60 miles a day.洛杉矶的平均上下班路程为每天60多英里。

1. 谐音"搞事婆". 助记法:喜欢(说闲话)的人都是搞事婆.
commute 通勤往返,代偿com-, 强调。-mut, 改变,交换,词源同move, mutable. 通常指固定往返于两地的人。
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."

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