- (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. 出租汽车;计程车;的士 We took a taxi to the airport. 我们乘出租车去机场。 to call/hail/catch/get a taxi 打电话/打招呼/赶/叫出租车 - by taxi
I came home by taxi. 我是坐出租车回家的。 a taxi driver 出租车司机 a taxi ride/service 出租车/出租车服务
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线、乘客可随时上下的)小公共汽车,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’.