taxi
taxi 英 [ˈtæksi] 美 [ˈtæksi]
n. 出租汽车
进行时:taxiing 过去式:taxied 过去分词:taxied 第三人称单数:taxies 名词复数:taxis
- Running late? Call a taxi. A taxi is a car you hire to drive you somewhere. In some big cities, all you have to do is raise your hand and yell "taxi!" and a taxi will pull up next to you.
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- n. 出租汽车
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1. a taxi driver,a taxi ride
出租汽车司机；乘出租车出行
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2. We'd better take a taxi.
我们最好乘出租车。
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3. I came home by taxi.
我是坐出租车回家的。
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4. to call a taxi
要╱招呼╱叫出租车
- taxi (n.) 1907, shortening of taximeter cab (introduced in London in March 1907), from taximeter "automatic meter to record the distance and fare" (1898), from French taximètre, from German Taxameter (1890), coined from Medieval Latin taxa "tax, charge."
- taxi (v.) 1911, of airplanes, from slang use of taxi (n.) for "aircraft," or from or reinforced "in allusion to the way a taxi driver slowly cruises when looking for fares" [Barnhart]. Related: Taxied; taxiing.
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