commute

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vt. 交换, 折偿, 减轻 vi. 代偿, 经常乘车来往

发音

UK /kəˈmjuːt/
其它
CA /kəˈmjut/
其它
US /kəˈmjut/
AU /kəˈmjʉːt/
NZ /kəˈmjʉːt/

词形变化

commutes 复数 commutes commutes 三单 commuting 现在分词 commuted 过去式 commuted 过去分词

教材释义与例句

名词

通勤(口语)

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The route, time or distance of that journey.

  2. 2.

    A regular journey between two places, typically home and work.

v. B2
  1. 1.

    To exchange substantially; to abate but not abolish completely, a penalty, obligation, or payment in return for a great, single thing or an aggregate; to cash in; to lessen

    to commute tithes into rentcharges for a sum

    to commute market rents for a premium

    to commute daily fares for a season ticket

  2. 2.

    To exchange substantially; to abate but not abolish completely, a penalty, obligation, or payment in return for a great, single thing or an aggregate; to cash in; to lessen

    To pay, or arrange to pay, in advance, in a lump sum instead of part by part.

    及物 商务 金融 法律

    to commute the daily toll for a year's pass

  3. 3.

    To exchange substantially; to abate but not abolish completely, a penalty, obligation, or payment in return for a great, single thing or an aggregate; to cash in; to lessen

    To reduce the sentence previously given for a criminal offense.

    及物 法律

    His prison sentence was commuted to probation.

  4. 4.

    To exchange substantially; to abate but not abolish completely, a penalty, obligation, or payment in return for a great, single thing or an aggregate; to cash in; to lessen

    To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution;

    不及物 废旧
  5. 5.

    Of an operation, to be commutative, i.e. to have the property that changing the order of the operands does not change the result.

    不及物 数学

    A pair of matrices share the same set of eigenvectors if and only if they commute.

  6. 6.

    To exchange substantially; to abate but not abolish completely, a penalty, obligation, or payment in return for a great, single thing or an aggregate; to cash in; to lessen

    To pay out the lumpsum present value of an annuity, instead of paying in instalments; to cash in; to encash

    及物 商务 金融
  7. 1.

    To regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa.

    通勤

    加拿大 英国 美国 不及物

    I commute from Brooklyn to Manhattan by bicycle.

  8. 2.

    To regularly travel from one place to another using public transport.

    不及物
  9. 3.

    To journey, to make a journey

    不及物

    By one estimate, vultures either residing in or commuting into the Serengeti ecosystem during the annual migration—when 1.3 million white-bearded wildebeests shuffle between Kenya and Tanzania—historically consumed more meat than all mammalian carnivores in the Serengeti combined.

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词源

From commutation ticket, a pass on a railroad, streetcar line, etc. that permitted multiple rides over a period of time, eg, a month, for a single, commuted payment.

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