cab的意思|cab的解释-里氏词典

cab [kæb]

n. 出租车, 出租汽车, 出租马车

vi. 乘出租马车(或汽车)

Shall we walk or take a cab?
我们走路还是坐出租车？
A cab will be there in ten minutes.
过10分钟会有一辆出租汽车到那儿。
The cab swung around the corner.
那部计程车转过街角。

cab

[ noun ]

a compartment at the front of a motor vehicle or locomotive where driver sits

<noun.artifact>

small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and a folding hood

<noun.artifact>

a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money

<noun.artifact>

[ verb ]

ride in a taxicab

<verb.motion>

taxi

Cab \Cab\ (k[a^]b), n. [Abbrev. fr. cabriolet.]
1. A kind of close carriage with two or four wheels, usually
a public vehicle. ``A cab came clattering up.''
--Thackeray.

Note: A cab may have two seats at right angles to the
driver's seat, and a door behind; or one seat parallel
to the driver's, with the entrance from the side or
front.

{Hansom cab}. See {Hansom}.

2. The covered part of a locomotive, in which the engineer
has his station. --Knight.

Cab \Cab\ (k[a^]b), n. [Heb. qab, fr. q[=a]bab to hollow.]
A Hebrew dry measure, containing a little over two (2.37)
pints. --W. H. Ward. --2 Kings vi. 25.

taxicab \tax"i*cab\, n.
an automobile with a professional driver which can be hired
to carry passengers; -- also called a {taxi}, and informally
called a {cab} or a {hack}. The driver of a taxicab is
referred to as a {cab driver} or {cabbie}, and sometimes as a
{chauffeur} or {hackie}.

Note: Taxicabs may be engaged by a prior appointment made,
e.g. by telephone, or they may cruise for passengers,
i.e. they may drive in city streets and stop to pick up
pasengers when they are signalled by a prospective
passenger. The act of signalling a taxicab (usually by
a wave of the arm) is often called

{to hail a cab} or

{to flag down a cab}.
[PJC]

She has a telephone in the cab atop her tower, and in her nearby cabin watches a battery-powered television, stores food in a propane-powered refrigerator and cooks on a propane-burning stove.
Heimbaugh resigned from the sheriff's department and works as a cab driver and bartender in San Francisco.
Also, most people don't use credit cards for inexpensive items, and many cab rides are less than $10.
It was followed by "Ernest Saves Christmas," in which an oddball cab driver (Jim Varney) saves the holidays by driving Santa's sleigh.
"What we have tried to do is make sure that cab drivers are clean and neat, and that they don't have objectionable odors," City Councilman Joel Wachs told reporters at a downtown taxi stand.
Mr. Fomon would often race up to the Hutton executive floor in the morning to borrow a few dollars to pay the cab driver waiting downstairs.
It's got its place, but not 24 hours a day for me." About being a celebrity: "In New York nobody cares, they just care that they're going to beat you to that cab.
Martini and Ms. Afdahl were arrested as they got into a taxi cab carrying a duffel bag.
No date of surrender has been set yet for Jackson, who has been free on $4,500 bail, working as a cab driver.
A lone pickup truck rolls into the floodlights, and the three men in the cab look glassy-eyed with fear.
On Sunday, an Army soldier serving with Bravo Co. of the 724th Maintenance Support Battalion was killed when the tractor-trailer truck he was driving overturned, pinning him in the cab.
Yellow cabs are cheap - Dollars 1.50 (Pounds 1) flat rate and 25 cents for each half mile thereafter. You cannot get a cab at Toronto airport - not officially anyway.
A supermarket chain is giving free merchandise to any customer who is not thanked by a check out cashier, a cab company is training all its drivers in etiquette and Diamond District merchants are displaying the courtesy posters in their store windows.
Grabbing a cab on the street is always cheapest, but if you are going far from the centre, ask the driver to wait. Getting to Beirut is also becoming easier - aircraft arrivals were up 26 per cent in the third quarter of last year and are rising.
And there's more money in cab fares and in gifts for loved ones bought by guys who feel guilty the next day.
"I've got to see my friends," he said before hopping in a cab. "We've got a lot to talk about." President Francois Mitterrand said he will seek re-election because he can rise above France's fractious politics and keep the country together.
In the latter, Kravitz accompanies himself on fuzztone guitar while telling of a cab driver passing him up for a ride because of his dreads and skin color.
"There is a lot of dissatisfaction over the hectic nature of this Christmas," said Ziegfried Kasper, a West Berlin cab driver born in a far corner of the former German empire in what is now Soviet Russia.
They visited the cab of one of the trains at London's Cannon Street station, which is reflected in the windscreen.
After he arrived at the airport in Allenwood, Matthews took a cab to the federal prison here.
Naturally, almost everyone will insist the bus is somehow inconvenient and opt for a cab.
Hotel staff and cab drivers can't recall the last time journalists took over the town.
Albert Wilson, 57, who said he has driven a cab for about a year, said he refuses to take people to housing projects.
He called the cab dispatcher to report what he had found.
But when you walked into his office, he put his arm around you; and when you left, he walked you downstairs and put you in a cab and made sure you had a candy bar," said Steven Lewins, a transporation analyst for New York-based Citibank.
"It's a happy cab," says Ward, who decks out his cab according to the season of the year.
"It's a happy cab," says Ward, who decks out his cab according to the season of the year.
One body was discovered in the cab of the truck, officials said.
The cab's back window was smashed.
"Even streetwise cab drivers (were) on their best behavior this week.

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