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Commute Home Meaning N Sentence Miles Work Journey

英语单词 commute
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 to/from n]
  [V between n and n]
  [V]
  • Mike commutes to London every day...

    迈克每天都去伦敦上班。

  • McLaren began commuting between Paris and London...

    麦克拉伦开始往返于巴黎与伦敦之间。

  • He's going to commute.

    他打算乘长途车往返上下班。

commuter
  • The number of commuters to London has dropped by 100,000.

    往返于伦敦的上班族减少了10万。

  • ...a commuter train.

    通勤列车

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]
  • 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。

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.
  [be V-ed to n]
  [be V-ed]
  [usu passive]
  • His death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment...

    他的死刑被减为无期徒刑。

  • Prison sentences have been commuted.

    服刑期得以减短。

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