tax·i
noun/ˈtæksi/
/ˈtæksi/
enlarge image(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
叫／招呼／搭乘出租车 - 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
乘坐出租车/服务
Extra ExamplesTopics Transport by car or lorrya1- We'd better take a taxi.
我们最好乘出租车。 - I'll get my secretary to call you a taxi.
我让秘书给你叫辆出租车。 - We had some difficulty finding a taxi.
我们费了好大劲儿才找到出租车。 - We hired a taxi for the day and went all over the island.
我们雇了一天的出租车转遍了整个岛。 - a five-minute trip by taxi
五分钟的出租车车程 - a water taxi heading for Venice
前往威尼斯的出租艇
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- air
- water
- take
- book (somebody)
- call (somebody)
- …
- cab
- company
- firm
- …
- by taxi
- We took a taxi to the airport.
- (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.
（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’.