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.
雙語例句
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。
來自柯林斯例句
2. He's going to commute.
他打算乘長途車往返上下班。
來自柯林斯例句
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.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
4. There's nothing quite like a real train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute.
沒有什么能象一位現實中的火車售票員那樣為日常的上下班交通線增加些色彩.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
5. I spend much less time on my commute to work now.