commuting的意思|commuting的解释-里氏词典

commuting [kə'mju:tiŋ]

交换（的）

Commuting in the rush-hour requires a phlegmatic temperament.
在上下班交通高峰期间乘坐通勤车要有安之若素的心境.
The time I spend in commuting every day adds up to three hours.
我每天上下班乘车花费的时间加起来有3个小时。

commuting

[ noun ]
the travel of a commuter
<noun.act>

Commute \Com*mute"\ (k[o^]m*m[=u]t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Commuted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Commuting}.] [L. commutare,
-mutatum; com- + mutare to change. See {Mutation}.]
1. To exchange; to put or substitute something else in place
of, as a smaller penalty, obligation, or payment, for a
greater, or a single thing for an aggregate; hence, to
lessen; to diminish; as, to commute a sentence of death to
one of imprisonment for life; to commute tithes; to
commute charges for fares.

The sounds water and fire, being once annexed to
those two elements, it was certainly more natural to
call beings participating of the first ``watery'',
and the last ``fiery'', than to commute the terms,
and call them by the reverse. --J. Harris

The utmost that could be obtained was that her
sentence should be commuted from burning to
beheading. --Macaulay.

commuting \commuting\ n.
the process of travel by a commuter.

Syn: commutation.
[WordNet 1.5]

Mr. Johnstone, 50 years old, was based in London and found "commuting" home to his family in the U.S. "something of an inconvenience," the spokeswoman said.
He set up both his residence and office in the same building to avoid commuting in the city.
Gov. James R. Thompson is commuting the sentence of a prison inmate who is dying of AIDS, the governor's counsel said.
As neither Railtrack nor the government feel like paying that, Britain seems destined to more commuting nightmares.
"If they knew about commuting to work every day on the freeway, fighting traffic, they'd have come home and kissed their deck winch," said Babich.
Rationing imposes strict constraints on both diet and fashion, lines are long at stores and restaurants, commuting is a nightmare and recreational opportunities are scarce.
Dow Jones said that Shaw's wife and three children have been living and working in North Carolina for several years and he has been commuting there on weekends.
The 6-foot-7 New Englander is well known in London, in part for his unusual habit of commuting on a bicycle.
Compared to the travails of commuting from the country, a short drive into the City has great appeal for bankers and brokers.
The Rwandan government marked the start of President Jevenal Habyarimana's third term by commuting death sentences and reducing prison terms for inmates sentenced before Jan. 8, Radio Kigali said Tuesday.
"Within the last five to 10 years, we have seen increased suburb to suburb commuting patterns," she said, making it more difficult to alleviate congestion with mass transit.
Thousands of evacuated residents waited to return home today while many others faced commuting headaches as propane from an overturned tank truck burned for a second day.
Not even by sowing with ox-drawn plows and commuting on bicycles could Mr. Castro weather the storm.
After all, there are now some 60,000 Israelis settled on the West Bank, most of them in fully developed suburban and exurban towns within relatively easy commuting distance of Jerusalem or Tel Aviv.
'We will have to go out and persuade the City to invest.' Aitken-Davies can claim practical, daily experience of the railway, commuting from Raynes Park in south west London to Waterloo.
Also, non-metro counties with a fourth or more of their residents commuting to jobs in metro areas grew by 1.13 percent a year, a bit faster than the national growth rate, although a sharp decline from their 1.92 percent gains in the 1970s.
Meanwhile, commuting kibbutzniks cause a minor traffic jam heading off to city jobs.
He said they can get about two hours of use for about eight hours of the sun's recharging. "That makes them ideal for commuting," he said.
Although the number of vehicles on the roads of greater Atlanta has doubled in the past five years, commuting times have remained fairly constant because employers have moved closer to suburban residents.
But it is separated from the city by a web of narrow, clogged streets that make commuting difficult.
In the US any number of fund managers would exchange the daily grind of commuting into Wall Street for life in a pleasant place like Norwich.
Hundreds of cartons spilled onto Interstate 684 and broke, closing the major commuting route in New York City's northern suburbs for five hours.
Drivers waste more than 400,000 hours a day because the average speed on urban freeways has fallen to about 20 mph during commuting hours.
The most serious of these is that many cannot find accommodation near the site and are commuting for up to two hours to and from work every day.
The collapse has closed a vital link for those commuting between San Francisco and Oakland.
And there would be a small Mercedes-Benz city car for urban commuting.
A defense attorney who had been commuting from Florida died of cancer.
Companies also support bicycle commuting as a way to promote fitness.
The most attractive aspect of working from home was to avoid commuting.' Most of the respondents believed that the superhighway would be beneficial for their companies.
Marcia Lowe writes that 33 states included bicycle promotion measures in their plans to comply with the Clean Air Act of 1970. Los Angeles would make major employers reduce the ratio of commuting cars to employees.

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