omnibus

FREQ #47623

n. 公共汽车, 公共马车, 精选集, 汇编 a. 综合性的, 总括的, 作多种用途的

发音

AU /ˈɒmnɪbəs/
UK /ˈɒmnɪbəs/
US /ˈɑmnɪbəs/

词形变化

omnibi omnibuses 复数 omnibuses omnibusses omnibusses 复数 omnibi 复数 omnibused omnibuses 三单 omnibusing omnibussed omnibussing omnibusses 三单 omnibusing 现在分词 omnibussing 现在分词 omnibused 过去式 omnibused 过去分词 omnibussed 过去式 omnibussed 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A bus (vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads).

    公共汽车

    巴士

    公车

    公交车

    公交

    公汽

    过时
  2. 2.

    An anthology of previously released material linked together by theme or author, especially in book form.

  3. 3.

    A broadcast programme consisting of all of the episodes of a serial that have been shown in the previous week.

    The omnibus edition of The Archers is broadcast every Sunday morning at 11.00.

  4. 4.

    A stamp issue, usually commemorative, that appears simultaneously in several countries as a joint issue.

  5. 5.

    An assistant waiter.

    美国 废旧 俚语
  6. 6.

    an omnibus box

v.
  1. 1.

    To combine (legislative bills, etc.) into a single package.

    及物
  2. 2.

    To drive an omnibus.

    过时 不及物
  3. 3.

    To travel or be transported by omnibus.

    过时 不及物

    [John] Virtue has often sung his ode to pollution; the artist's friend. Whether to embrace or reject the begrimed air, the half-choked light has historically sorted out the men from the boys in London painters. […] Claude Monet was in two minds about it, cursing it from his room in the Savoy in 1899 for blotting out the fugitive sun. Yet by far the strongest of his paintings – completed in a studio a long, long way from the Thames – were the greeny-grey early-morning images of crowds tramping and omnibussing their way to work over hostile bridges, unblessed by even a hint of watery sunshine.

adj.
  1. 1.

    Containing multiple items.

    综合的

    包含多个项目的

    The legislature enacted an omnibus appropriations bill.

  2. 2.

    Of a transportation service, calling at every station, as opposed to express; local.

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词源

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃ep-der. Proto-Italic *opnis Latin omnis Latin omnibuslbor. French omnibusbor. English omnibus Borrowed from French (voiture) omnibus (“(carriage) for all”), from Latin omnibus (“for all”), dative plural of omnis (“all”).

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