- (also cab, taxicab)
a car with a driver that you pay to take you somewhere. Taxis usually have meters that show how much money you have to pay. 出租汽車;計程車;的士 We took a taxi to the airport. 我們乘出租車去機場。 to call/hail/catch/get a taxi 打電話/打招呼/趕/叫出租車 - by taxi
I came home by taxi. 我是坐出租車回家的。 a taxi driver 出租車司機 a taxi ride/service 出租車/出租車服務
Extra ExamplesTopics Transport by car or lorrya1Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- air
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- (in some places in Africa)
a small bus with a driver that you pay to take you somewhere. Taxis usually have fixed routes and stop wherever passengers need to get on or off. see also daladala, matatu(非洲某些地方走固定路線、乘客可随時上下的)小公共汽車,小巴士
Word Originearly 20th cent.: abbreviation of taxi-cab or taximeter cab, from French taximètre, from taxe ‘tariff’, from the verb taxer ‘to tax’ + -mètre ‘(instrument) measuring’.