passenger

英 ['p?s?nd??] 美['p?s?nd??]

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復數:?passengers;

passenger 旅客，乘客

來自法語passer,走過，經過，-enger,人，詞源同messenger.引申詞義旅客，乘客。

passenger: passenger: [14] Originally a passenger was a passager – someone who goes on a ‘passage’, makes a journey. The word was borrowed from Old French passager, at first an adjective meaning ‘passing’, which was derived from passage. The n began to appear in the mid-15th century, a product of the same phonetic process as produced the n of harbinger and messenger.
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passenger (n.): early 14c., passager "passer-by," from Old French passagier "traveler, passer-by" (Modern French passager), noun use of passagier (adj.) "passing, fleeting, traveling," from passage (see passage).
And in this I resemble the Lappwing, who fearing hir young ones to be destroyed by passengers, flyeth with a false cry farre from their nestes, making those that looke for them seeke where they are not .... [John Lyly, "Euphues and His England," 1580]
The -n- was added early 15c. (compare messenger, harbinger, scavenger, porringer). Meaning "one traveling in a vehicle or vessel" first attested 1510s. Passenger-pigeon of North America so called from 1802; extinct since 1914.

1. Most of our flights have a baggage allowance of 44lbs per passenger.: 我們大多數航班行李限重為每位乘客44磅。

2. Mr Fullemann was a passenger in the car when it crashed.: 出車禍時，福勒曼先生正在那輛車上。

3. They wrenched open the passenger doors and jumped into her car.: 他們使勁拽開后座車門，跳進了她的車子。

5. As a learner rider you must not carry a pillion passenger.: 作為摩托車初學者，切勿后座載人。