| 单词 | cab |
| 释义 | cab (once / 419 pages) 1nv 2n A cab is a taxi, a car whose driver you pay to take you where you need to go. It can feel like a competitive sport to hail a cab in New York City. Your cab driver may talk incessantly while she drives you to the airport, or you might ride in a cab that's silent except for the sound of its horn honking at other drivers. You can also call the front part of a truck, where the driver sits, the cab. In the 1820s, the word meant "horse-drawn carriage," short for the French cabriolet, "leap or caper." The Latin root is capreolus, "wild goat." WORD FAMILYcab: cabbed, cabbing, cabs USAGE EXAMPLESIf you can’t find anything else, sign up with a local cab firm and spend long hours on the streets. The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017) Video footage of the scene showed the cab of a tractor-trailer cut in half. As of midafternoon, southbound I-5 was closed to traffic. Los Angeles Times(Dec 31, 2016) Sure, the practicalities are hideous – no cabs, endless crowds and queues, quite a lot of mugging – but still! The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) 1 1n a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money Syn|Hypo|Hyper hack, taxi, taxicab gypsy cab a taxicab that cruises for customers although it is licensed only to respond to calls minicaba minicar used as a taxicab auto, automobile, car, machine, motorcar a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine 2n small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and a folding hood Syn|Hyper cabriolet carriage, equipage, rig a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses 3v ride in a taxicab 2Syn|Hyper taxi ride be carried or travel on or in a vehicle n a compartment at the front of a motor vehicle or locomotive where driver sits Hyper compartment a partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed area |
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