passenger

• n. 旅客；乘客；過路人；礙手礙腳的人

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。

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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。

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3. They wrenched open the passenger doors and jumped into her car.

他們使勁拽開後座車門，跳進了她的車子。

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4. His car has a bullet lodged in the passenger door.

他的車在客座位的門上嵌著一顆子彈。

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5. As a learner rider you must not carry a pillion passenger.

作為摩托車初學者，切勿後座載人。

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