英语词汇“transportation”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	transportation
释义	trans·por·ta·tion \ˌtranzpə(r)ˈtashən, ˌtraan-, -n(t)sp-\ noun (-s) Etymology: Latin transportatus (past participle of transportare to transport) + English -ion 1. a. : an act, process, or instance of transporting or being transported < arranging for the transportation of his luggage > < transportation of the troops overseas is accomplished by ships and planes > b. : the conveyance or movement of sediment or rock materials either as solid particles or in solution from one place to another on or near the earth's surface by water, ice, air, or gravity 2. obsolete : transport 3 3. : banishment usually to a penal colony — compare deportation < was convicted and sentenced to transportation for life — Joseph Chiari > 4. a. : means of conveyance or travel from one place to another < his transportation is a battered coupé — Phoenix Flame > < cluttering up the road with transportation — G.S.Patton > also : the cost of such means of conveyance or travel < the state providing transportation for each child … to the extent of 70 cents per day — American Guide Series: Minnesota > b. : public conveyance of passengers, goods, or materials especially as a commercial enterprise < a single railroad … monopolizes all the railroad transportation through that valley — O.W.Holmes †1935 > < nation whose very existence … depends on transportation — Motor Transportation in the West >
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