commuter
noun /kəˈmjuːtə(r)/
/kəˈmjuːtər/
- a person who travels into a city to work each day, usually from quite far away
（远距离）上下班往返的人 - The five o’clock train is always packed with commuters.
五点钟那趟车总是挤满了通勤者。 - (British English) the commuter belt (= the area around a city where people live and from which they travel to work in the city)
上班族居住地带
Culture commutingcommutingCommuting is the practice of travelling to a town or city to work each day, and then travelling home again in the evening. The word commuting comes from commutation ticket, a US ticket for repeated journeys, called a season ticket in Britain. Regular travellers are called commuters.The US has many commuters. A few, mostly on the East Coast, commute by train or subway, but most depend on the car. Some leave home very early to avoid the traffic jams, and sleep in their cars until their office opens. Many people accept a long trip to work so that they can live in quiet bedroom communities away from the city.Millions of people in Britain commute by car or train. Some spend two or three hours a day travelling, so that they and their families can live in suburbia or in the countryside. Cities are surrounded by commuter belts. Part of the commuter belt around London is called the stockbroker belt because it contains houses where rich business people live. Some places are known as dormitory towns (NAmE bedroom community), because people sleep there but take little part in local activities.Most commuters travel to and from work at the same time, causing the morning and evening rush hours, when buses and trains are crowded and there are traffic jams on the roads. Commuters on trains usually spend their journey reading, sleeping or using their computers or mobile phones. Increasing numbers of people now work at home some days of the week, linked to their offices by computer, a practice called telecommuting or teleworking.Cities in both Britain and the US are trying to reduce the number of cars coming into town each day. Some companies encourage car pooling (called car sharing in Britain), an arrangement for people who live and work near each other to travel together. Some US cities have a public service that helps such people to contact each other, and parts of the road are reserved for car-pool vehicles. But cars and fuel are cheap in the US, and many people prefer to drive alone because it gives them more freedom. Many cities have park-and-ride schemes, car parks on the edge of the city from which buses take drivers into the centre. In Britain in 2002 a system of congestion charging was introduced in Durham to make people who drive into the city centre pay a congestion charge (= pay money to drive into the city centre). A similar system was introduced in London in 2003.- A group of regular commuters were playing cards.
一群经常通勤的人在打牌。 - About a million commuters use the rail network every day.
每天大约有一百万通勤者使用铁路网。 - Commuter services are under a greater strain then ever before.
通勤服务的压力比以往任何时候都大。 - Commuters are angry at the increase in rail fares.
通勤者对铁路票价的上涨感到愤怒。 - Commuters from Essex to London face a nightmare journey today.
从埃塞克斯到伦敦的通勤者今天面临着一场噩梦般的旅程。 - I could hear the commuter traffic in the distance.
我能听到远处通勤车的声音。 - She lives in a small commuter town, 25 miles from San Francisco.
她住在一个通勤族聚居的小镇上，离旧金山25英里。 - The accident involved a crowded commuter train.
事故涉及一列拥挤的通勤火车。 - The developments are in the London commuter belt.
这些开发项目位于伦敦市郊。 - The train was packed with commuters.
火车上挤满了上下班的人。 - The village has become the preserve of rich commuters and second home owners.
这个村庄已经成为富裕的通勤者和第二套住房所有者的领地。 - There has been an increase in the numbers of daily commuters into London.
每天乘车去伦敦上班的人数有所增加。 - There have been improvements to commuter lines.
通勤线路有所改善。 - We need to encourage commuters not to drive into the city.
我们需要鼓励通勤者不要开车进城。
Collocations DictionaryCommuter is used before these nouns:- belt
- line
- rail
- …
- The five o’clock train is always packed with commuters.