mid-15c., "to change, transform," from Latin commutare "to often change, to change altogether," from com-, intensive prefix (see com-), + mutare "to change" (see mutable). Sense of "make less severe" is 1630s. Sense of "go back and forth to work" is 1889, from commutation ticket "season pass" (on a railroad, streetcar line, etc.), from commute in its sense of "to change one kind of payment into another" (1795), especially "to combine a number of payments into a single one." Related: Commuted; commuting.
雙語例句
1. The average Los Angeles commute is over 60 miles a day.
洛杉磯的平均上下班路程為每天60多英里。
來自柯林斯例句
2. He's going to commute.
他打算乘長途車往返上下班。
來自柯林斯例句
3. We chose to live out of town and commute to work every day.
我們決意住在城外,每天趕路上班.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
4. There's nothing quite like a real train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute.
沒有什么能象一位現(xiàn)實中的火車售票員那樣為日常的上下班交通線增加些色彩.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
5. I spend much less time on my commute to work now.