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美音:[´pæsəndʒə ]点这儿播放单词美音发声
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n.乘客,旅客

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passenger


/'pæsɪndʒə(r); `pæsndʒɚ/
n
1 person travelling in a car, bus, train, plane, ship, etc, other than the driver, the pilot or a member of the crew 乘客
*The driver of the car was killed in the crash but both passengers escaped unhurt. 事故中汽车司机丧生, 但两名乘客幸未受伤.
* [attrib 作定语] the passenger seat, ie the seat next to the driver's seat in a motor vehicle (司机座旁的)客座
* a passenger train, ie one carrying passengers rather than goods 铁路的客车.
2 (infml 口 esp Brit) member of a team, crew, etc who does not do as much work as the others (团体中的)闲散人员
*This firm can't afford (to carry) passengers. 这家商行养不起闲散人员.

passenger


n[C]
[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Old French;Origin: passager, from passage; PASSAGE]
someone who is travelling in a vehicle, plane, boat etc, but is not driving it or working on it
 Neither the driver nor the passengers were hurt.
passenger train/plane/ship
 a crash involving a passenger train
bus/rail/airline passengers
 Rail passengers now face even longer delays.
BrE someone in a group who does not do their share of the group's work
 The company can't afford to carry any passengers.
1. When a light passenger plane flew off course some time ago, it crashed in the mountains and its pilot was killed.
    不久前,一架轻型客机偏离了航线,在山区坠毁,飞行员丧生。

2. "The driver will lean over to the passenger-side window, you tell him where you want to go, then negotiate a price."
    "司机会俯身靠在乘客一端的窗口,你告诉他你要到哪里去,然后商量价钱。"

3. Captain Fawcett´s first passenger was a doctor who flew from Birmingham to a lonely village in the Welsh mountains.
    弗西特机长的第一名乘客是位医生,他从伯明翰飞往威尔士山区一个偏僻的村庄。

4. On the second day, we briefly meet a passenger who speaks Yiddish.
    次日,我们遇上了一个说依地语的人。

5. Looking round, I realized with a shock that I was the only passenger left on the bus.
    我环视了一下身旁,惊奇地发现车里就只剩我一个乘客了。

6. It is a passenger plane made in China.
    这是一架国产客机。

7. I asked a passenger if this was the Westhaven Express, but he had not even heard of it.
    我问一位乘客,这是不是开往威斯特海温的那趟快车,他说从未听说过有这么一趟快车。

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