• vt. 減刑；交換；用……交換；使……變成
• vi. 通勤；代償
• n. 通勤（口語(yǔ)）

com-, 強(qiáng)調(diào)。-mut, 改變，交換，詞源同move, mutable. 通常指固定往返于兩地的人。

commute (v.)

mid-15c., "to change, transform," from Latin commutare "to often change, to change altogether," from com-, intensive prefix (see com-), + mutare "to change" (see mutable). Sense of "make less severe" is 1630s. Sense of "go back and forth to work" is 1889, from commutation ticket "season pass" (on a railroad, streetcar line, etc.), from commute in its sense of "to change one kind of payment into another" (1795), especially "to combine a number of payments into a single one." Related: Commuted; commuting.

1. The average Los Angeles commute is over 60 miles a day.

洛杉磯的平均上下班路程為每天60多英里。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句

2. He's going to commute.

他打算乘長(zhǎng)途車往返上下班。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句

3. We chose to live out of town and commute to work every day.

我們決意住在城外,每天趕路上班.

來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》

4. There's nothing quite like a real train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute.

沒(méi)有什么能象一位現(xiàn)實(shí)中的火車售票員那樣為日常的上下班交通線增加些色彩.

來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》

5. I spend much less time on my commute to work now.

我現(xiàn)在工作的往返時(shí)間要節(jié)省好多.

來(lái)自超越目標(biāo)英語(yǔ) 第3冊(cè)