英语单词 | commute |
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英美音标 | 英 [kə'mjuːt] 美 [kə'mjuːt] |
中文释义 | v.通勤;折换;减刑;改变;交换 n.乘车上下班 |
英语例句 | (1) Mary used to commute five miles from her home in the suburb. (2) They chose to commute equity into license agreements. (3) Regular train travellers may commute a single monthly payment for daily tickets. (4) He can commute pain for pleasure. (5) These operators commute with each other. (6) Her commute to work will be easy. |
中文例句 | (1) 玛丽过去每天从郊区的家里走五英里来上班。 (2) 他们选择了将股权转换成许可协议。 (3) 经常坐火车的人可以按每天的票价折换购买月票。 (4) 他能变痛苦为快乐。 (5) 这些操作工经常交换岗位。 (6) 她上下班交通会很方便。 |
vocabulary简明 | A commute is a journey you take from home to work and back again. You might enjoy your subway commute because it gives you lots of time to read. |
vocabulary扩展 | Your commute is your trip to work, and the verb commute describes making that trip — like your preference to commute by public bus. Another meaning of commute describes changing the length of a judicial sentence, like when a judge commutes someone's time in jail. You can see this meaning in the word's origin — the Latin word commutare, meaning "to change altogether." |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [VERB 动词](经很远的路程)上下班往返;通勤 If you commute, you travel a long distance every day between your home and your place of work. [V [V [V]
commuter
2 [N-COUNT 可数名词]上下班路程 A commute is the journey that you make when you commute. [mainly AM 主美]
3 [VERB 动词]减轻(刑罚) If a death sentence or prison sentence is commuted to a less serious punishment, it is changed to that punishment. [ [ [usu passive]
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