passenger
英 ['p?s?nd??]
美['p?s?nd??]
- n. 旅客；乘客；過路人；礙手礙腳的人
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詞態變化
復數:?passengers;
中文詞源
passenger 旅客，乘客
來自法語passer,走過，經過，-enger,人，詞源同messenger.引申詞義旅客，乘客。
英文詞源
- passenger
- passenger: [14] Originally a passenger was a passager – someone who goes on a ‘passage’, makes a journey. The word was borrowed from Old French passager, at first an adjective meaning ‘passing’, which was derived from passage. The n began to appear in the mid-15th century, a product of the same phonetic process as produced the n of harbinger and messenger.
=> pass - passenger (n.)
- early 14c., passager "passer-by," from Old French passagier "traveler, passer-by" (Modern French passager), noun use of passagier (adj.) "passing, fleeting, traveling," from passage (see passage).
And in this I resemble the Lappwing, who fearing hir young ones to be destroyed by passengers, flyeth with a false cry farre from their nestes, making those that looke for them seeke where they are not .... [John Lyly, "Euphues and His England," 1580]
The -n- was added early 15c. (compare messenger, harbinger, scavenger, porringer). Meaning "one traveling in a vehicle or vessel" first attested 1510s. Passenger-pigeon of North America so called from 1802; extinct since 1914.
雙語例句
- 1. Most of our flights have a baggage allowance of 44lbs per passenger.
- 我們大多數航班行李限重為每位乘客44磅。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Mr Fullemann was a passenger in the car when it crashed.
- 出車禍時，福勒曼先生正在那輛車上。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. They wrenched open the passenger doors and jumped into her car.
- 他們使勁拽開后座車門，跳進了她的車子。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. His car has a bullet lodged in the passenger door.
- 他的車在客座位的門上嵌著一顆子彈。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. As a learner rider you must not carry a pillion passenger.
- 作為摩托車初學者，切勿后座載人。
來自柯林斯例句