mass noun
1- the carrying of people, goods, or materials from one place to another运送, 运输, 运载：
a painting was damaged in transit.
一幅画在运送中受损。
1.1
- count noun an act of passing through or across a place通过, 经过：
the first west-to-east transit of the Northwest Passage
西北航道的首次由西向东穿越航行
as modifier a transit airline passenger.一位转机乘客。
1.2
- N. Amer. the conveyance of passengers on public transport〈北美〉公共交通客运。
1.3
- Astronomy the passage of an inferior planet across the face of the sun, or of a moon or its shadow across the face of a planet【天文】凌日。
1.4
- Astronomy the apparent passage of a celestial body across the meridian of a place【天文】中天。
1.5
- Astrology the passage of a celestial body through a specified sign, house, or area of a chart【占星】凌。
(transited, transiting)with obj.
1- pass across or through (an area)经过, 穿过（某一地区）：
the new large ships will be too big to transit the Panama Canal.
这些新巨轮太大了, 过不了巴拿马运河。
1.1
- Astronomy (of a planet or other celestial body) pass across (the face of another body, or a meridian)【天文】（行星等天体）经过（另一天体, 子午线）。
1.2
- Astrology (of a celestial body) pass across (a specified sign, house, or area of a chart)【占星】（天体）经过（黄道十二宫之一、住宅或星图区域）。
词源
late Middle English (denoting passage from one place to another)： from Latin transitus, from transire 'go across'.