| 英语单词 | chauffeur |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 ['ʃəʊfə(r)] 美 [ʃoʊ'fɜːr] |
| 中文释义 | n.司机 v.当司机 |
| 英语例句 | (1) The chauffeur is employed by the rich man. (2) He put a car and chauffeur at the visitor's service. (3) He chauffeured us to the airport. (4) I spent most of the day chauffeuring the kids around. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 这个司机受雇于那个富人。 (2) 他派了汽车和司机,供客人使用。 (3) 他开车送我们去机场。 (4) 我给孩子们当了大半天的司机。 |
| vocabulary简明 | Do you pay someone to drive you around? Then you have a private chauffeur. |
| vocabulary扩展 | Chauffeur literally means "operator of a steam engine" in French, but they used it as a nickname for the first motorists who drove steam engine cars. Today chauffeurs are just the guys you pay to drive you around, like the chauffeur of a limo. Chauffeur can also be used as a verb: once you get your driver's license, your parents will be happy to not have to chauffeur you back and forth to school. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词](富人或要人的)私人司机 The chauffeur of a rich or important person is the man or woman who is employed to look after their car and drive them around in it. 2 [VERB 动词]为…当私人司机;给…开车 If you chauffeur someone somewhere, you drive them there in a car, usually as part of your job. [V n adv/prep] [V-ed] [Also V n]
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