单词	shuttle
释义	shuttle1 nounshuttle2 verb shuttleshut‧tle1 /ˈʃʌtl/ ●○○ noun [countable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINshuttle1 Origin: Old English scytel ‘bar, bolt’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES If I take the 6:30 shuttle, I'll be there in time for the meeting. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS A glorious bright turquoise liquid jersey pantsuit is the ultimate garb for travel by space shuttle. Agents and ambassadors left on the down shuttle, frantically covering their tracks. Columbia blasted off Thursday on a planned 17-day flight, the longest ever for a shuttle. The shuttle also will nudge the observatory gently into a slighter higher orbit to extend its lifetime. The cost of launching that ounce of gold into low-Earth orbit by shuttle would be about $ 830. The deployer mechanism snagged on a safety bolt, and the satellite never made it more than 850 feet from the shuttle. The warp thread is wound round the pegs and two large and two small shuttles used for weaving the weft. word sets WORD SETS► Space aerospace, nounair lock, nounalien, adjectivealien, nounastronaut, nounblast-off, nounbooster, nounburnout, nouncapsule, nouncommand module, nouncontrol, nouncosmonaut, nouncraft, noundock, verbescape velocity, nounextraterrestrial, nounflight, nounflying saucer, nounlauncher, nounlaunch pad, nounlife support system, nounlift-off, nounlunar, adjectivemission control, nounmodule, nounmother ship, nounNASA, nounnosecone, nounouter space, nounpod, nounprobe, nounremote sensing, nounrocket, nounship, nounshuttle, nounsoft landing, nounspace capsule, nounspacecraft, nounspaceman, nounspace probe, nounspaceship, nounspace shuttle, nounspace station, nounspacesuit, nounspacewalk, nounsplashdown, nountouchdown, nountracking station, nounUFO, noununmanned, adjective Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► shuttle bus  A shuttle bus operates to and from the beach of San Benedetto. ► shuttle service  There’s a shuttle service from the city center to the airport. COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► a shuttle bus (=one that makes regular short journeys between two places)· There’s a shuttle bus between the hotel and the beach. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► free · Use the free shuttle bus to the show.· I favored Aspen for many years because I could fly there and walk or use free shuttle buses to get around.· Or you can take the Piccadilly Line to Wood Green station and take the free shuttle to the show.· Once in Breckenridge, a free shuttle system provides transportation to the mountain bases and throughout town. NOUN► bus · A daytime shuttle bus operates 6 days a week to the village.· C., will deploy a fuel cell-driven shuttle bus using methanol as a fuel.· The hotel is air-conditioned and offers a complimentary shuttle bus to the nearby Equador beach.· A courtesy shuttle bus runs to and from the Ally Pally.· Parmenter took the Agency shuttle bus back to Langley.· Use the free shuttle bus to the show.· Private vehicles are prohibited in the area, which is served by a shuttle bus. ► crew · Space shuttle crew members tinkered with a few experiments for the last time before shutting down their high-flying microgravity laboratory.· The cameras beamed live views of shuttle crew members as they were strapped by colleagues into the cramped cockpit.· Accompanying the shuttle crew will be 66 laboratory rats, six of them nursing females and the remainder neonates. ► diplomacy · Clinton did some frantic shuttle diplomacy, but there was nothing doing. ► flight · Malerba was on last month's Atlantis shuttle flight which failed to launch a satellite to produce electricity.· Most space shuttle flights are dedicated to that project.· The Bush proposal would fund only six shuttle flights per year instead of the seven or eight planned now. ► mission · Challenger Learning Centres aim to give children something of the excitement and adventure of a shuttle mission.· It will be the first shuttle mission for Horowitz, who began flying with his father at age 7.· It also provides a docking facility for later shuttle missions. ► program · It is an actual spacecraft from the Soviet space shuttle program, owned and operated by former cosmonauts and space program employees. ► service · He suggested a shuttle service may be suitable for people wishing to attend at Marton.· There's even complimentary shuttle service to and from the nearby Music Center.· Most trains on the Oxford line were stopped at Didcot, there buses ran a shuttle service to Slough.· If the shuttle service is a hit, it will likely operate more frequently, Redlitz said.· There has been growing speculation that the airline intends to transfer its Heathrow shuttle service from Aldergrove to the harbour route.· C., I used to take the airplane shuttle service the night before.· The Shorts 360 specialises on the Jersey - Guernsey shuttle service. ► space · Seven-year-old Amy Collard captured the spirit of many who watched the space shuttle Challenger disintegrate in the Florida sky.· The number of space shuttle assembly missions will be reduced from seven to six a year.· Rockwell not only built the space shuttle but constructed key components for the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs of the 1960s.· Astronauts re-launch stranded satellite Astronauts on the space shuttle have sent a stranded satellite back into orbit.· Mark told of an acquaintance who was honored to greet the returning space shuttle astronauts. VERB► launch · A similar problem had forced the cancellation of the May launch of the shuttle Columbia.· The computer runs a backup software program for launching and landing the shuttle. 1a space shuttle2a plane, bus, or train that makes regular short journeys between two places:  He took the Washington–New York shuttle. A shuttle bus operates to and from the beach of San Benedetto. There’s a shuttle service from the city center to the airport.3a pointed tool used in weaving, to pass a thread over and under the threads that form the cloth shuttle1 nounshuttle2 verb shuttleshuttle2 verb Verb Table VERB TABLE shuttle Simple Form Present I, you, we, they shuttle he, she, it shuttles Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they shuttled Present perfect I, you, we, they have shuttled he, she, it has shuttled Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had shuttled Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will shuttle Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have shuttled Continuous Form Present I am shuttling he, she, it is shuttling you, we, they are shuttling Past I, he, she, it was shuttling you, we, they were shuttling Present perfect I, you, we, they have been shuttling he, she, it has been shuttling Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been shuttling Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be shuttling Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been shuttling Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Passengers were herded onto buses and shuttled to hotels downtown. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS A piston destined to shuttle back and forth within a cylinder will be made on a lathe. All day students are shuttled from room to room for forty two-to fifty five-minute periods of unrelated subject matter. During the week, I often shuttle easily to appointments in central London by car. Ross watched as it shuttled between them, going from hand to hand across thirty feet of air. The goldfish shuttled to and fro, beneath the flat leaves, and there was an hour longer for them to sit there. word sets WORD SETS► Transport accelerate, verbaerodynamic, adjectiveaerodynamics, nounairfreight, nounaisle, nounarr., baggage room, nounboard, verbboarding, nounBOL, booking office, nounbrake, nounbrake, verbbrake light, nounbrake shoe, nounbreakdown clause, bulk freight, C&F, cable car, nouncable railway, nouncargo, nouncarriage, nouncarrier, nouncart, nounCFR, change, verbchange, nounchassis, nounchopper, nounCMR, compartment, nounconcourse, nounconductor, nouncongested, adjectiveconnect, verbconnection, nounconsolidator, nouncontainer, nounconveyance, nounconvoy, nouncouple, verbcoupling, nouncourier, nouncourier, verbcrash, verbcrash, nouncrew, nouncrewman, nouncruise, verbcutting, noundead reckoning, noundelivery date, departure, noundestination, noundispatch rider, noundistribution channel, diverge, verbdouble-book, verbdrop-off, noundrop-shipping, nounelevated railway, nounengine, nounengineer, nounETA, nounfare, nounfeeder, nounfirst class, nounfirst-class, adjectivefloating insurance, flow, verbFOB, FOB airport, fogbound, adjectiveFOR, fork, nounfork, verbfree of particular average, adjectivefreighter, noungangway, noungross weight, Gro t, gyroscope, nounHague Rules, nounhelmet, nounhigh-speed, adjectivehijack, verbhijack, nounhitch, verbhub airport, ICAO, intercity, adjectiveinternational airport, interstate, adjectivekph, LGV, line, nounloading, nounluge, nounluggage, nounluggage rack, nounmachine, nounmarine insurance, mileage, nounmilepost, nounmotion sickness, nounmph, mudflap, nounnavigate, verbnavigation, nounnet weight, one-way, adjectiveopen insurance, outride, verbovertake, verbpackager, nounpannier, nounpart shipment, passenger, nounpayload, nounportage, nounporter, nounpropulsion, nounramp, nounreceiving office, red-eye, nounregional airport, re-route, verbreturn, nounreturn, adjectivereverse logistics, ride, verbroller, nounround-trip, nounround-trip, adjectiveroute, nounroute, verbrun, verbrun, nounschedule, nounsecond class, nounservice, nounship, verbshipload, nounshipment, nounshipper, nounshipping, nounshuttle, nounshuttle, verbsingle, adjectivesingle, nounski, nounskid, verbskid, nounstabilizer, nounstaging post, nounstall, verbsteering wheel, nounstopping distance, nounstowage, nounsubsonic, adjectivesupersonic, adjectivesurface transport, tailwind, nountanker, nounticket, nountime machine, nountimetable, nountourist class, nountowrope, nountrack, nountrack, verbtraffic, nountranscontinental, adjectivetransfer, verbtransfer, nountransit visa, nountransportation, nountransship, travel insurance, troop carrier, nountruckload, nountunnel, nountwo-seater, nountyre, noununderway, adjectiveU-turn, nounviaduct, nounwheel, nounwheel, verbwreck, nounyaw, verbyield, verb Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► a shuttle bus (=one that makes regular short journeys between two places)· There’s a shuttle bus between the hotel and the beach. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► back · Or does it merely shuttle back and forth like a ferry?· Now he had to devise a method by which workmen and supplies could shuttle back and forth across the gorge.· We shuttle back and forth between the large department stores that anchor the mall.· A piston destined to shuttle back and forth within a cylinder will be made on a lathe.· Body bags were being zipped and trolleys shuttled back and forth.· Pre-packed experiments will be shuttled back and forth from Earth and slotted into 13 research racks.· Mrs Mandela has been shuttling back and forth with messages from her husband's prison home near Cape Town. 1[intransitive always + adverb/preposition] to travel frequently between two places SYN  commuteshuttle between/back and forth Susan shuttles between Rotterdam and London for her job.2[transitive] to move people from one place to another place that is fairly near SYN  transport:  The passengers were shuttled to the hotel by bus.
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