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单词 to book through
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to book through
to book through
1. transitive. To issue (a passenger) with a ticket to cover the whole of a journey which includes a number of transfers or connections; to reserve (a seat) for a journey in this way; to arrange the transport of (luggage) to the end point of a journey. Cf. through adj. 2b.
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1786 Morning Post 10 Nov. This is..the only carriage in which places are booked through to the Head.
1839 Railway Times 17 Aug. 635/1 Passengers may be booked through from Derby to London.
1884 Great Western Railway Time Table July 53 Passengers are booked through from Warwick.
1907 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 1 Dec. 488 Passengers for this trip may also be booked through from any Railway Station.
1985 R. Mannheim tr. P. Handke Slow Homecoming 102 Though booked through, Sorger took his suitcase, left the plane, and boarded an already overcrowded bus which carried him over a snowy highway.
1995 Scotl. on Sunday (Nexis) 26 Mar. s17 Baggage can be booked through to final destination only if no change of airport is involved.
2. intransitive. To obtain a ticket to cover the whole of a journey which includes a number of transfers or connections.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > public passenger transport > travel on (public vehicle) [verb (intransitive)] > obtain ticket for whole journey
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1839 Railway Times 17 Aug. 636/1 The Public is informed that arrangements have been made for booking through and proceeding in the same Carriage to and from London and Preston by the London and Birmingham, Grand Junction, and North Union Railways.
1858 Penny Cycl. 2nd Suppl. 565/2 A man may now ‘book through’ from London to so many continental cities.
1913 Jrnl. Afr. Soc. 12 249 Merchants from the Hausa states..now book through to Lagos or Baro.
1977 M. Taylor S. Amer. Survival x. 149 Those wishing to go on to Buenos Aires or Chile, should book through to Salta.
2003 P. Harding & B. Thomas Goa (ed. 3) 82/1 Even if you book through to Margao you can get off at any station en route.
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