| 单词 | chauffeur |
| 释义 | chauf·feur1 /ˈʃəʊfə, ʃəʊˈfɜː $ ˈʃoʊfər, ʃoʊˈfɜːr/ noun [countable] DRIVEsomeone whose job is to drive a car for someone else 〔受雇为他人开车的〕司机Examples from the Corpuschauffeur• a chauffeur-driven Rolls Royce• One morning I saw Mrs Goreng's chauffeur grinning as he went about his chore of servicing the jeep.• I'll learn to drive and be some film star's chauffeur.• Toward afternoon, he rapped on the dividing window and asked the chauffeur to stop.• It was clear that, for the chauffeur at least, cars had priority over women.• The chauffeur started up, and they moved off.• The chauffeur was driving me to my novena yesterday.• The chauffeurs know their opera and their composers.• Mrs Mellor was chauffeur driven to the Rock and taken back by car after having lunch with the boat party.chauffeur2 verb [transitive] 1. DRIVEto drive a car for someone as your job 专职为…开汽车2 (also chauffeur somebody ↔ around)DRIVE to drive someone in your car, especially when you do not want to 〔尤指非情愿地〕开车载〔某人〕，为…当车夫 I spent most of the day chauffeuring the kids around. 那天我大部分时间都在给孩子们当司机。→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpuschauffeur• If they were that rich, they would have been chauffeured.• So he wasn't chauffeured about in his native city.• Another had himself chauffeured around in patrol cars.• In rich suburbs, kids are insulated and chauffeured everywhere.• Diana, driving herself, arrived first, followed 25 minutes later by Prince Charles, who was chauffeured in his Bentley.• I've spent all day chauffeuring the kids around.• The children lead sheltered lives, getting chauffeured to and from their prep schools.• Or let me chauffeur your kid.Origin chauffeur1 (1800-1900) French “person attending to the fire of a steam-driven vehicle, driver”, from chauffer “to heat”chauf·feur1 nounchauffeur2 verbChineseSyllable Corpus is a drive to someone car whose job |
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