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Commute Change Sense Kə'Mju:T V.交换;坐公交车上下班 英 V.交换(To Exchange

单词 commute
音标 [kə'mju:t]
解释 v.交换;坐公交车上下班
红宝书 【英】 v.交换(to change or exchange)
【记】 com[共同]+mut[改变] →坐车换车→坐公共 车)
字源 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.
不择手段背单词 v. 交换(to change or exchange); 坐公共交通车上下班
【例】I commute from Cambridge to London every day 我每天上下班来往于剑桥和伦敦之间.
【记】com共同, mute改变-坐车换车-坐公车上下班com共同, mute哑巴: 只有在公车里的人才都不说话.
【参】commuter(n 经常(乘火车)往返者; 使用月票乘车者)
趣味全助记 【记】com 一起 + mute- 变化;communicate 交流,都是互相交换的意思
【相关】permute 序列改变

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