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a large road vehicle that carries passengers, especially one that travels along a fixed route and stops regularly to let people get on and off 公共汽车；巴士 
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Shell we walk or go by bus? 我们步行还是乘公共汽车去？ I didn't want to get on the wrong bus. 我不想上错车。 Many students board the school bus before 7 a.m. 许多学生在早上7点前登上校车。 He was seriously injured when the band's tour bus crashed. 当乐队的旅游巴士坠毁时，他受了重伤。 I was going to catch the airport shuttle bus. 我正要去赶机场班车。 - (US English)
I ride the city bus every day. 我每天都坐公共汽车。 a bus company/driver 公共汽车公司／司机 A regular bus service connects the train station with the town centre. 火车站和市中心之间有定时班车。 He can't afford the bus fare into the city. 他负担不起进城的公共汽车费用。
Extra ExamplesTopics Transport by car or lorrya1, Transport by bus and traina1I left work a bit late and had to run for my bus. 我下班有点晚，得跑着赶公共汽车。 I missed the last bus and had to walk. 我错过了最后一班公交车，只好步行。 I waited 40 minutes for a bus. 我等公共汽车等了 40 分钟。 Is this the bus for Oxford? 这公共汽车是到牛津的吗？ It's about 15 minutes away by bus. 乘公交车大约 15 分钟车程。 Local buses run regularly to and from the campus. 当地有定时往返校园的公交车。 Look up the bus schedule on the internet. 在因特网上查找公共汽车各班次的时刻。 Look up the bus times in the local timetable. 在当地时刻表中查找公共汽车各班次的时刻。 The bus left the city, heading north. 那辆公交车离开城市向北开去。 The bus pulled up and we got on. 公共汽车停下来，我们上了车。 The buses stop outside the post office. 公共汽车在邮局外停靠。 The double-decker bus stopped to pick up some more passengers. 那辆双层公共汽车停下来又搭载了一些乘客。 There are regular buses to the beach. 有去海滨的定时公共汽车。 We took the bus from Reading to Bristol. 我们乘从雷丁到布里斯托尔的公共汽车。 a bus carrying 56 passengers 一辆载着 56 名乘客的公共汽车 a four-hour bus journey over the mountains 穿山越岭的 4 个小时公交车程 a short bus journey to work 上班乘公交车短短的车程 people travelling on buses 公共汽车上的人 people who travel on buses 乘公共汽车的人 the bus from Charlottesville to Union Station 从夏洛茨维尔到联合车站的公共汽车 the bus into town 进城的公共汽车 Have you got a bus timetable? 你有公共汽车时刻表吗？ It's a short bus ride from here. 从这里坐公共汽车去很快就到。 The map shows all the local bus routes. 这张地图显示了所有当地的公共汽车路线。 There is a bus, the number 18, which stops outside the house. 有一辆18路公共汽车停在房子外面。 When we go on a double-decker bus the children always want to sit upstairs. 当我们乘双层公共汽车时，孩子们总是想坐在楼上。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- regular
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computing 计算机 a set of wires that carries information from one part of a computer system to another （计算机系统的）总线
Word Originearly 19th cent.: shortening of omnibus.
Idioms
throw somebody under the bus (especially North American English, informal)
to make somebody else suffer in order to save yourself or gain an advantage for yourself （为了自救或私利而）使别人受苦，拿某人当牺牲品 Plenty of my co-workers are satisfied to throw everyone else under the bus as long as they keep their wages. 我的许多同事只要能保住自己的工资，而不惜牺牲其他所有人的利益。