taxi-cab

基本解釋

Because I had overslept, I had to wolf down my breakfast in the taxi-cab on the way to work.
因?yàn)樗^(guò)頭，我得在開(kāi)往公司的計(jì)程車?yán)锍栽绮汀?/li>
By taxi people do not mean the Western-style saloon cab but the privately owned 16-seat minibus “kombi”, used throughout Africa as the main form of public transport.
人們乘出租車并不是指西式出租轎車，而是16人坐的私家小型巴士——康比小客車，這是非洲一種主要的公共交通工具。
Later, when they had finished dinner, they drove uptown in a taxi-cab and went to one of the summer musical shows near Broadway, where an English revue was appearing.
吃完晚餐過(guò)后，他們開(kāi)著一輛的士到了布羅德威的夏日音樂(lè)劇場(chǎng)，那里正好在上演一部英國(guó)時(shí)俗諷刺音樂(lè)劇。
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