shut·tle
noun/ˈʃʌtl/
/ˈʃʌtl/
- a plane, bus or train that travels regularly between two places
来往于两地之间的航班（或班车、火车） - a shuttle service between London and Edinburgh
往返于伦敦和爱丁堡之间的航班 - I’m flying to Boston on the shuttle.
我乘坐往返班机前往波士顿。
CultureLe Shuttle is the name of the train service that takes cars and their passengers through the Channel Tunnel between England and France.Extra ExamplesTopics Transport by bus and trainc1- I took the shuttle from Washington to New York.
我搭乘从华盛顿飞往纽约的班机。 - The supermarket operates a complimentary shuttle service.
这家超市提供免费往返购物班车。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- airport
- hotel
- catch
- fly on
- get
- …
- bus
- flight
- service
- …
- on a/the shuttle
- shuttle between
- shuttle from
- …
- a shuttle service between London and Edinburgh
- (also space shuttle)a spacecraft designed to make repeated journeys, for example between the earth and a space station
航天飞机 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- space
- fly
- launch
- craft
- crew
- flight
- …
- aboard the shuttle
- on board the shuttle
- a pointed tool used in making cloth to pull a thread backwards and forwards over the other threads that pass along the length of the cloth
梭；梭子
Word OriginOld English scytel ‘dart, missile’, of Germanic origin; compare with Old Norse skutill ‘harpoon’; related to shoot. Sense 1 and the verb are from the movement of the bobbin from one side of the loom to the other and back.