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a person who is travelling in a car, bus, train, plane or ship and who is not driving it or working on it 乘客;旅客 airline/cruise/rail/bus passengers 航空/邮轮/铁路/公共汽车乘客 I soon got talking to a fellow passenger on the flight. 我很快就和飞机上的一位乘客聊了起来。 The boat was carrying more than 100 passengers. 这艘船载有100多名乘客。 a passenger train (= carrying passengers, not goods) 客运列车
Extra ExamplesTopics Transport by bus and traina2, Transport by watera2, Transport by car or lorrya2, Transport by aira2A taxi was picking up a passenger outside the hotel. 一辆出租车正在酒店外面接一名乘客。 Flight 717 began boarding passengers. 717 号航班开始登机。 The bus stopped to let its passengers off. 公共汽车停下来,让乘客下车。 The ship can accommodate 450 passengers. 这艘船能载 450 名乘客。 Will all passengers for Frankfurt please go to Gate 21. 请去往法兰克福的乘客到21 号登机口准备登机。 first-class passengers 头等旅客 A queue of foot passengers were waiting to board the boat. 一队徒步旅行者正等着上船。 Airline passengers face steep rises in fares. 飞机乘客面临机票价格大幅上升。 Passengers were left stranded for three hours when their train broke down. 当他们的火车抛锚时,乘客们被困了三个小时。 There is no airbag on the passenger side. 乘客座位没有安全气囊。 The driver walked around and opened the passenger door. 司机走来走去,打开了乘客门。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- business-class
- coach
- economy-class
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- carry
- fly
- transport
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- wait
- be aboard (something)
- fly
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- cabin
- compartment
- door
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- passenger for
- passenger in
- passenger on
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a member of a group or team who does not do as much work as the others 白吃饭的人;闲散人员
Word OriginMiddle English: from the Old French adjective passager ‘passing, transitory’, used as a noun, from passage, based on Latin passus ‘pace’.