- [uncountable]
the process of being moved or carried from one place to another 運輸；運送；搬運；載運 Extra Examplesgoods in transit between factory and store 在工廠和商店之間的運輸途中的商品 Your insurance should cover transit by air, sea or rail. 你的保險應該涵蓋空運、海運和鐵路運輸。
Oxford Collocations Dictionarytransit + noun- point
- camp
- lounge
- …
- in transit
- transit between
- transit from
- …
- [uncountable, countable, usually singular]
the act of going through a place on the way to somewhere else 通過；經過；通行；過境；中轉 the transit lounge at Vienna airport 維也納機場中轉候機室 a transit visa (= one that allows a person to pass through a country but not to stay there) 過境簽證
Extra ExamplesTopics Transport by airc1The port has become a transit point in the drug trade. 這個港口成了毒品交易的中轉點。 The goods were still in a transit shed on the quay. 貨物仍堆在碼頭的中轉庫房。 a transit camp for refugees 臨時難民營
Oxford Collocations Dictionarytransit + noun- point
- camp
- lounge
- …
- in transit
- transit between
- transit from
- …
- [uncountable] (North American English)
the system of buses, trains, etc. that people use to travel from one place to another 交通運輸系統 the city’s mass/public transit system 城市的公共交通運輸系統
Extra ExamplesThe New York transit strike is in its second day. 紐約公交工人的罷工進入了第二天。 The city has acquired a light rail transit system. 該市有了輕軌交通系統。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- mass
- public
- rapid
- …
- system
- hub
- station
- …
Word Originlate Middle English (denoting passage from one place to another): from Latin transitus, from transire ‘go across’.