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commuting

/kuh-myoot/US // kəˈmyut //UK // (kəˈmjuːt) //

通勤,换乘,上班,上下班

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
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    com·mut·ed, com·mut·ing.

    • : to change to a less severe one: The death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
    • : to exchange for another or for something else; give and take reciprocally; interchange.
    • : to change: to commute base metal into gold.
    • : to change into or for another, as by substitution.
v.无主动词 verb
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    com·mut·ed, com·mut·ing.

    • : to travel regularly over some distance, as from a suburb into a city and back: He commutes to work by train.
    • : to make substitution.
    • : to serve as a substitute.
    • : to make a collective payment, especially of a reduced amount, as an equivalent for a number of payments.
    • : Mathematics. to give the same result whether operating on the left or on the right.
n.名词 noun
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    • : a trip made by commuting: It's a long commute from his home to his office.
    • : an act or instance of commuting.

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Examples

  • There’s no commute, there’s no lunchtime or after work drinks.

  • These are issued when questionable weather overlaps with the commute but is not quite enough for an advisory.

  • For a cold commute, the best winter gloves will allow you to use touch screen technology without going barehanded.

  • At one point, before her hour-long commute, she reportedly mentioned that her hands were cold.

  • As workers return to offices, they may still feel most comfortable with socially distant commutes rather than public transit.

  • The rapid rise of the sharing economy is changing the way people around the world commute, shop, vacation, and borrow.

  • A tense commute to work in Houston will start to resemble a tense commute in Boston or New York City.

  • It meant a serious commute, and a few quibbles from the locals about jumping to a rival, but Malania put in the hours.

  • Stephanie lives in the Bronx and works in Manhattan, a commute that should take 45 minutes.

  • He will spend the rest of his commute sedentary, and she upright.

  • McAllen didn't look in the least like a man who could afford nowadays to commute by air between the Mediterranean and California.

  • His voice was for the gallows,—but, in consideration of the criminal's rank, he would consent to commute the cord for the axe.

  • When a man wanted to commute then he paid a monthly fee to the railroad and they printed his name on this official list.

  • Did you commute back and forth from your sister's home in Irving?

  • I've got enough money to commute, when the time comes, and I'll feel a lot better if I go through with it now I've started.