shuttle

noun

/ˈʃʌtl/

a plane, bus or train that travels regularly between two places来往于两地之间的航班（或班车、火车）
- a shuttle service between London and Edinburgh往返于伦敦和爱丁堡之间的航班
- I’m flying to Boston on the shuttle.我乘坐往返班机前往波士顿。
CultureLe Shuttle is the name of the train service that takes cars and their passengers through the Channel Tunnel between England and France.
- I took the shuttle from Washington to New York.我搭乘从华盛顿飞往纽约的班机。
- The supermarket operates a complimentary shuttle service.这家超市提供免费往返购物班车。
Topics Transport by bus and trainc1
Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- airport
- hotel
verb + shuttle
- catch
- fly on
- get
- …
shuttle + noun
- bus
- flight
- service
- …
preposition
- on a/the shuttle
- shuttle between
- shuttle from
- …
(also space shuttle)
a spacecraft designed to make repeated journeys, for example between the earth and a space station航天飞机：旨在进行多次旅行的航天器，例如在地球与空间站之间的旅行
Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- space
verb + shuttle
- fly
- launch
shuttle + noun
- craft
- crew
- flight
- …
preposition
- aboard the shuttle
- on board the shuttle
a pointed tool used in making cloth to pull a thread backwards and forwards over the other threads that pass along the length of the cloth梭；梭子

词源Old English scytel ‘dart, missile’, of Germanic origin; compare with Old Norse skutill ‘harpoon’; related to shoot. Sense 1 and the verb are from the movement of the bobbin from one side of the loom to the other and back.

shuttle

verb

/ˈʃʌtl/

动词形式

present simple I / you / we / they shuttle	/ˈʃʌtl/ /ˈʃʌtl/
he / she / it shuttles	/ˈʃʌtlz/ /ˈʃʌtlz/
past simple shuttled	/ˈʃʌtld/ /ˈʃʌtld/
past participle shuttled	/ˈʃʌtld/ /ˈʃʌtld/
-ing form shuttling	/ˈʃʌtlɪŋ/ /ˈʃʌtlɪŋ/

[intransitive] shuttle (between A and B) to travel between two places frequently频繁往来（于甲地和乙地之间）
- Her childhood was spent shuttling between her mother and father.她的童年是在父母之间穿梭往来中度过的。
[transitive] shuttle somebody (+ adv./prep.) to carry people between two places that are close, making regular journeys between the two places（在较近的两地之间定时）往返运送
- A bus shuttles passengers back and forth from the station to the terminal.一辆公共汽车在火车站和航站楼之间往返运送旅客。