英语词汇“jitney bus”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

2. In full jitney bus, jitney omnibus. An omnibus or other motor vehicle which carries passengers for a fare, originally five cents. So, on account of the low fare or the poor quality of these buses, used attributively to denote anything cheap, improvised, or ramshackle.

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > public service vehicle > [noun] > omnibus > motor-driven > other types

wagonette omnibus1903

jitney bus1914

lorry-bus1919

mammy wagon1957

postbus1957

mammy lorry1959

jeepney1961

danfo1973

transbus1973

molue1976

bendy bus1978

daladala1983

1914 Let. 28 Nov. in Nation (N.Y.) (1915) 14 Jan. 50/3 This autumn automobiles, mostly of the Ford variety, have begun in competition with the street cars in this city [sc. Los Angeles]. The newspapers call them ‘Jitney 'buses’.

1915 N.Y. Evening Post 16 Apr. The jitney wears out the streets and should contribute to their repair.

1915 Literary Digest 4 Sept. 462/1 In western Pennsylvania striking traction employees are operating a competing jitney service to bring the company to terms.

1916 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 6 July 4/5 The daily jitney service between Nanaimo and South Wellington has been discontinued. Hereafter cars will run on Saturdays only and the fare has been raised from 25 cents to 50 cents.

1916 H. L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap ii. 59 He..sells these jitney pianos and phonographs and truck like that.

1917 E. Frost Lett. (1972) 13 I hired McGrath, the jitney driver, to bring us home.

1919 E. von Arnim Christopher & Columbus xxxi. 400 He had come in the jitney omnibus to the nearest point.

1920 F. S. Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise i. iii. 120 Here's the old jitney waiter. If you ask me, I want a double Daiquiri.

1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 25 Mar. 2/4 The decision of the Provincial Legislature to prohibit the sale of near beer will affect 58 jitney bars in this city, according to City Licence Inspector Charles Jones.

1922 Public Opinion 11 Jan. 48/2 I entered into his Jitney and waited for him to start.

1923 F. Parsons Everybody's Business 215 All the jitney operators on the line.

1925 Amer. Speech 1 152/1 That bastard word ‘jitney’ is still used in outlying places, where a ‘jitney dance’ means a nickel dance.

1933 N.Y. Herald Tribune 5 Dec. 17/3 We refer to the jitney economists, the boys who play the money tunes only by ear.

1946 E. O'Neill Iceman Cometh i. 36 He never worries in hard times because there's always old friends from the days when he was a jitney Tammany politician.

1947 E. A. McCourt Music at Close 108 He would go to the jitney dance held in the big open space behind the town hall unless an outdoor floor had been set up.

1967 Bahamas Handbk. & Businessmen's Ann. (ed. 7) 197 There are jitneys on New Providence..which travel over unscheduled and not necessarily prescribed routes picking up and dropping off passengers.

1973 Philadelphia Inquirer 7 Oct. (Today Suppl.) 8/2 From the museum a jitney carries visitors to the Mills.

单词	jitney bus
释义	> as lemmas jitney bus 2. In full jitney bus, jitney omnibus. An omnibus or other motor vehicle which carries passengers for a fare, originally five cents. So, on account of the low fare or the poor quality of these buses, used attributively to denote anything cheap, improvised, or ramshackle. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > public service vehicle > [noun] > omnibus > motor-driven > other types wagonette omnibus1903 jitney bus1914 lorry-bus1919 mammy wagon1957 postbus1957 mammy lorry1959 jeepney1961 danfo1973 transbus1973 molue1976 bendy bus1978 daladala1983 1914 Let. 28 Nov. in Nation (N.Y.) (1915) 14 Jan. 50/3 This autumn automobiles, mostly of the Ford variety, have begun in competition with the street cars in this city [sc. Los Angeles]. The newspapers call them ‘Jitney 'buses’. 1915 N.Y. Evening Post 16 Apr. The jitney wears out the streets and should contribute to their repair. 1915 Literary Digest 4 Sept. 462/1 In western Pennsylvania striking traction employees are operating a competing jitney service to bring the company to terms. 1916 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 6 July 4/5 The daily jitney service between Nanaimo and South Wellington has been discontinued. Hereafter cars will run on Saturdays only and the fare has been raised from 25 cents to 50 cents. 1916 H. L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap ii. 59 He..sells these jitney pianos and phonographs and truck like that. 1917 E. Frost Lett. (1972) 13 I hired McGrath, the jitney driver, to bring us home. 1919 E. von Arnim Christopher & Columbus xxxi. 400 He had come in the jitney omnibus to the nearest point. 1920 F. S. Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise i. iii. 120 Here's the old jitney waiter. If you ask me, I want a double Daiquiri. 1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 25 Mar. 2/4 The decision of the Provincial Legislature to prohibit the sale of near beer will affect 58 jitney bars in this city, according to City Licence Inspector Charles Jones. 1922 Public Opinion 11 Jan. 48/2 I entered into his Jitney and waited for him to start. 1923 F. Parsons Everybody's Business 215 All the jitney operators on the line. 1925 Amer. Speech 1 152/1 That bastard word ‘jitney’ is still used in outlying places, where a ‘jitney dance’ means a nickel dance. 1933 N.Y. Herald Tribune 5 Dec. 17/3 We refer to the jitney economists, the boys who play the money tunes only by ear. 1946 E. O'Neill Iceman Cometh i. 36 He never worries in hard times because there's always old friends from the days when he was a jitney Tammany politician. 1947 E. A. McCourt Music at Close 108 He would go to the jitney dance held in the big open space behind the town hall unless an outdoor floor had been set up. 1967 Bahamas Handbk. & Businessmen's Ann. (ed. 7) 197 There are jitneys on New Providence..which travel over unscheduled and not necessarily prescribed routes picking up and dropping off passengers. 1973 Philadelphia Inquirer 7 Oct. (Today Suppl.) 8/2 From the museum a jitney carries visitors to the Mills. extracted from jitneyn. < as lemmas
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