cab

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CET4TEM4考研TOEFL中低頻詞常用詞匯

復(fù)數(shù):?cabs;

cab???????????出租汽車(chē)???“開(kāi)吧！出租汽車(chē)”

cab 出租車(chē)

來(lái)自拉丁詞caper, 山羊，詞源同caprice, cabriolet. 原指一種顛簸的馬車(chē)，猶如蹦跳的山羊。

cab: cab: [19] Cab is short for cabriolet, a term, borrowed from French, for a light horse-drawn carriage. It comes, via the French verb cabrioler, from Italian capriolare ‘jump in the air’, a derivative of capriolo ‘roebuck’, from Latin capreolus, a diminutive form of caper ‘goat’ (source of English caper ‘leap’ and Capricorn). The reason for its application to the carriage was that the vehicle’s suspension was so springy that it appeared to jump up and down as it went along. From the same source comes the cabriole leg ‘curved furniture leg’ [18], from its resemblance to the front leg of a capering animal.
=> cabriole, cabriolet, caper, capricorn
cab (n.): 1826, "light, horse-drawn carriage," shortening of cabriolet (1763), from French cabriolet (18c.), diminutive of cabrioler "leap, caper" (16c./17c.), from Italian capriolare "jump in the air," from capriola, properly "the leap of a kid," from Latin capreolus "wild goat, roebuck," from PIE *kap-ro- "he-goat, buck" (cognates: Old Irish gabor, Welsh gafr, Old English h?fr, Old Norse hafr "he-goat"). The carriages had springy suspensions.

Extended to hansoms and other types of carriages, then extended to similar-looking parts of locomotives (1851). Applied especially to public horse carriages, then to automobiles-for-hire (1899) when these began to replace them.

1. The cab pulled up and the driver jumped out.: 出租車(chē)減速停下，司機(jī)跳了出來(lái)。

2. A Luton van has additional load space over the driver's cab.: 盧頓廂式貨車(chē)的駕駛室上方有富余的裝載空間。