| 单词 | chauffeur |
| 释义 | chauffeur From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishchauffeurchauf‧feur1 /ˈʃəʊfə, ʃəʊˈfɜː $ ˈʃoʊfər, ʃoʊˈfɜːr/ noun [countable]DRIVEsomeone whose job is to drive a car for someone elseExamples from the Corpuschauffeur• a chauffeur-driven Rolls Royce• One morning I saw Mrs Goreng's chauffeur grinning as he went about his chore of servicing the jeep.• I'll learn to drive and be some film star's chauffeur.• Toward afternoon, he rapped on the dividing window and asked the chauffeur to stop.• It was clear that, for the chauffeur at least, cars had priority over women.• The chauffeur started up, and they moved off.• The chauffeur was driving me to my novena yesterday.• The chauffeurs know their opera and their composers.• Mrs Mellor was chauffeur driven to the Rock and taken back by car after having lunch with the boat party. chauffeurchauffeur2 verb [transitive]1 DRIVEto drive a car for someone as your job2 (also chauffeur somebody ↔ around)DRIVE to drive someone in your car, especially when you do not want toI spent most of the day chauffeuring the kids around.→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpuschauffeur• If they were that rich, they would have been chauffeured.• So he wasn't chauffeured about in his native city.• Another had himself chauffeured around in patrol cars.• In rich suburbs, kids are insulated and chauffeured everywhere.• Diana, driving herself, arrived first, followed 25 minutes later by Prince Charles, who was chauffeured in his Bentley.• I've spent all day chauffeuring the kids around.• The children lead sheltered lives, getting chauffeured to and from their prep schools.• Or let me chauffeur your kid.Origin chauffeur1 (1800-1900) French “person attending to the fire of a steam-driven vehicle, driver”, from chauffer “to heat” |
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