Cab
[kæb]
解释:
(noun.) a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money.
(noun.) small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and a folding hood.
(noun.) a compartment at the front of a motor vehicle or locomotive where driver sits.
编辑:罗达--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A kind of close carriage with two or four wheels, usually a public vehicle.
(n.) The covered part of a locomotive, in which the engineer has his station.
(n.) A Hebrew dry measure, containing a little over two (2.37) pints.
杜威手打
解释:
n. a Hebrew dry measure = nearly three pints.
n. a public carriage of various sizes and shapes with two or four wheels drawn by one horse.—ns. Cab′by a shortened form of Cab′man one who drives a cab for hire; Cab′-stand a place where cabs stand for hire; Cab′-tout one whose business it is to call cabs.—Cabmen's shelter a place of shelter for cabmen while waiting for hire.
杰西整理
娱乐性解释：
To ride in a cab in dreams, is significant of pleasant avocations, and average prosperity you will enjoy. To ride in a cab at night, with others, indicates that you will have a secret that you will endeavor to keep from your friends. To ride in a cab with a woman, scandal will couple your name with others of bad repute. To dream of driving a public cab, denotes manual labor, with little chance of advancement.
手打:利奥波德
娱乐性解释：
Affair for a drive.
科林整理
例句:
- We can get a cab up at the bridge, I said. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- The cab and the landau with their steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- I got into the cab and gave the driver the address of Simmons, one of the men I knew who was studying singing. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- The only thing to do, now, is to send for a cab immediately. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- I put her in her cab as I was coming in, and she gave the driver the Trenors' address. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- Permit me to give an idea of my devotion to my aunt's interests by recording that, on this occasion, I committed the prodigality of taking a cab. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- Let them each have a cab, and go about. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- My wants were few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- Pray step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you everything which you would wish to know. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- The Columbia two-seated Dos-a-Dos (Fig. 188), Woods’ Victoria Hansom Cab, and the Riker Electric Delivery Wagon are representative types of the modern electric automobile. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- It's past eleven, and I must really ask you to ring for a cab. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- He read the bill attentively, considered a moment, and then hailed an empty cab as it passed him. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I'll wait outside in the cab! 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Well, sir, the cab went from Lombard Street to the Tower Wharf. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- Let a cab be brought. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Many vast vague reputations have been made, solely by taking cabs and going about. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- More is done, or considered to be done--which does as well--by taking cabs, and 'going about,' than the fair Tippins knew of. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Sometimes, I walk; sometimes, I proceed in cabs, draining the pocket of the schoolmaster who then follows in cabs. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Boots and Brewer go about in cabs, with no other intelligible business on earth than to beat up people to come and dine with the Veneerings. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- I came to Baker Street by the Underground and hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this snow. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
手打:莫林