单词 | in transit |
释义 | > as lemmasin transit in transit [after classical Latin in transitū] : in the course of moving or transporting, or of being moved or transported. ΚΠ 1788 P. Stockdale Ximenes iv. v. 89 Check the lightning's fiery wings, In transit through a still, and lowering sky. 1800 P. Colquhoun Treat. Commerce & Police R. Thames viii. 259 Property..stationary on the Quays or in transit on the River. 1878 T. Hardy Return of Native II. iii. vii. 202 Wildeve was mortified by the discovery that the matter in transit was money. 1901 Philadelphia Med. Jrnl. 5 Oct. 558/2 The vessel might possibly have carried the yellow fever mosquito in transit. 1968 Bull. Entomol. Res. 57 646 This specimen was most unfortunately fragmented in transit to Hamburg. 2005 N. Gershenfeld FAB 86 Roughly a third of Ghana's food spoils in transit for want of refrigeration. < as lemmas |
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