- [countable]
a person who trains a person or team in sport （体育运动的）教练 the head/assistant coach 主教练/助理教练 a basketball/football coach 篮球/足球教练 the team coach 团队教练 the England coach 英格兰教练 Italy’s national coach 意大利国家队教练 Coach Bob Shapiro 鲍勃•夏皮罗教练 the Giants coach Tom Coughlin 巨人队教练汤姆·库格林 - coach of/with/for somebody/something
the coach of the New York Knicks 纽约尼克斯队的教练 a coach with the Chicago Cubs 芝加哥小熊队的教练 a coach for the US Olympic team 美国奥林匹克队的教练 He is a former college football coach. 他是前大学足球教练。
Extra ExamplesTopics Sports: other sportsa2, Educationa2a top basketball coach 顶尖的篮球教练 The Giants coach had this to say last night:… 巨人队教练昨晚说了如下内容：⋯ The national athletics coach was interviewed after the event. 事后，国家田径教练接受了采访。 Who's the team coach? 队里的教练是谁？ See you tomorrow, Coach. 明天见，教练。 a pitching coach 投球教练
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- good
- successful
- top
- …
- [countable]
a person who gives private lessons to somebody, often to prepare them for an exam 私人教师；（多指）考前辅导教师 a maths coach 数学应试辅导教师
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- good
- successful
- top
- …
- [countable] (also life coach)
a person who is employed by somebody to give them advice about how to achieve the things they want in their life and work （体育运动的）教练 - [countable] (British English)
a comfortable bus for carrying passengers over long distances 长途汽车；长途客车 
to take/get a coach 乘坐/得到一辆长途汽车 - by coach
Travel is by coach overnight to Berlin. 旅程为乘一夜长途汽车去柏林。 - on a coach
Four passengers on the coach were seriously injured in the crash. 客车上的四名乘客在事故中受了重伤。 a coach tour/journey/trip 长途汽车旅行/旅程/旅行 - coach to/for…
She was seen boarding a coach to Southampton. 有人看见她登上一辆开往南安普顿的长途汽车。 - coach from…
I got off the coach from London and walked home. 我从伦敦下了长途汽车，步行回家。 They went to Italy on a coach tour. 他们乘长途客车去意大利旅游。 a coach driver/passenger/operator 长途汽车司机/乘客/司机 a coach station (= where coaches start and end their journey) 长途汽车总站 a coach party (= a group of people travelling together on a coach) 乘坐长途客车的旅游团
Extra ExamplesTopics Transport by car or lorrya2, Transport by bus and traina2They are planning to tour the United States by coach. 他们计划乘长途公共汽车在美国旅游。 They travelled by coach from London to Berlin. 他们乘长途汽车从伦敦去柏林。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- express
- private
- luxury
- …
- go by
- travel by
- board
- …
- station
- driver
- holiday
- …
- by coach
- in a/the coach
- on a/the coach
- …
- [countable] (also carriage (both British English), North American English car)
a separate section of a train for carrying passengers 长途汽车；长途客车 a railway coach 火车车厢
Extra ExamplesTopics Transport by bus and trainb2Our seats are in Coach D. 我们的座位在D车厢。 When the train finally came into the platform it only had two coaches. 火车最终驶进站台时，只剩下两节车厢。
- [countable]
a large closed vehicle with four wheels, pulled by horses, used in the past for carrying passengers （旧时载客的）四轮大马车 This is the old coach road. 这是旧时的马车道。 a gateway wide enough for a coach and four (= pulled by four horses) to drive through 宽度足够一辆4匹马拉的车通过的大门
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- royal
- drive
- ride in
- drive
- road
- house
- a coach and horses
- [uncountable] (North American English)
the cheapest seats in a plane （客机的）经济舱 to fly coach 坐飞机经济舱 coach fares/passengers/seats 飞机经济舱票价／乘客／座位
Word Originnoun senses 3 to 7 mid 16th cent. (in sense (6)): from French coche, from Hungarian kocsi (szekér) ‘(wagon) from Kocs’, a town in Hungary. noun senses 1 to 3 early 18th cent. (as a verb): figuratively from coach referring to a vehicle.
Idioms
drive a coach and horses through something
to cause something to fail, for example a plan 毁掉，糟蹋，破坏（计划等）