taxi

noun

/ˈtæksi/

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(also cab, taxicab)
a car with a driver that you pay to take you somewhere. Taxis usually have meters that show how much money you have to pay.出租汽车；计程车；的士
- We took a taxi to the airport.我们乘出租车去机场。
- to call/hail/catch/get a taxi 打电话/打招呼/赶/叫出租车
- by taxi I came home by taxi.我是坐出租车回家的。
- a taxi driver出租车司机
- a taxi ride/service出租车/出租车服务
- We'd better take a taxi.我们最好乘出租车。
- I'll get my secretary to call you a taxi.我让秘书给你叫辆出租车。
- We had some difficulty finding a taxi.我们费了好大劲儿才找到出租车。
- We hired a taxi for the day and went all over the island.我们雇了一天的出租车转遍了整个岛。
- a five-minute trip by taxi五分钟的出租车车程
- a water taxi heading for Venice前往威尼斯的出租艇
Topics Transport by car or lorrya1
Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- air
- water
verb + taxi
- take
- book (somebody)
- call (somebody)
- …
taxi + noun
- cab
- company
- firm
- …
phrases
- by taxi
(in some places in Africa) a small bus with a driver that you pay to take you somewhere. Taxis usually have fixed routes and stop wherever passengers need to get on or off.（非洲某些地方走固定路线、乘客可随时上下的）小公共汽车，小巴士 see also daladala, matatu

词源early 20th cent.: abbreviation of taxi-cab or taximeter cab, from French taximètre, from taxe ‘tariff’, from the verb taxer ‘to tax’ + -mètre ‘(instrument) measuring’.

taxi

verb

/ˈtæksi/

[intransitive]

动词形式

present simple I / you / we / they taxi	/ˈtæksi/ /ˈtæksi/
he / she / it taxies	/ˈtæksiz/ /ˈtæksiz/
past simple taxied	/ˈtæksid/ /ˈtæksid/
past participle taxied	/ˈtæksid/ /ˈtæksid/
-ing form taxiing	/ˈtæksiɪŋ/ /ˈtæksiɪŋ/

(of a plane飞机) to move slowly along the ground before taking off or after landing（起飞前或降落后在地面上）滑行Topics Transport by airc2
词源early 20th cent.: abbreviation of taxi-cab or taximeter cab, from French taximètre, from taxe ‘tariff’, from the verb taxer ‘to tax’ + -mètre ‘(instrument) measuring’.