bus的词源

英文词源

bus

bus: [19] Bus is, of course, short for omnibus. The first person on record as using it was the British writer Harriet Martineau, who spelled it buss: ‘if the station offers me a place in the buss’, Weal and woe in Garveloch 1832. Omnibus itself was borrowed from French, where it was first applied in 1828 to a voiture omnibus, literally ‘carriage for everyone’ (omnibus is the dative plural of Latin omnis ‘all’).

bus (n.)

1832, abbreviation of omnibus (q.v.). The modern English noun is nothing but a Latin dative plural ending. To miss the bus, in the figurative sense of "lose an opportunity," is from 1901, Australian English (OED has a figurative miss the omnibus from 1886). Busman's holiday "leisure time spent doing what one does for a living" (1893) is probably a reference to London bus drivers riding the buses on their days off.

bus (v.)

1838, "to travel by omnibus," from bus (n.). Transitive meaning "transport students to integrate schools" is from 1961, American English. Meaning "clear tables in a restaurant" is first attested 1913, probably from the four-wheeled cart used to carry dishes. Related: Bused; busing.

中文词源

bus（公共汽车）：供多人乘坐的马车

在公共汽车出现之间，人们可以搭乘出租马车外出。这种出租马车有点像现在的出租车，但需要提前预订。1823年，一位名叫Stanislas Baudry的法国人在法国南特市郊区创办了一个蒸汽磨坊，并利用多余的热气提供公共浴场服务。为此，他提供一辆大型马车来接送住在市中心的客人来往浴场。在提供这种运输业务时，他发现有很多上车的客人并不是去他的浴场，而是在中途其他地点下车。受此其他，1826年，他放弃了浴场业务，专门经营这种新型的运输业务，并专门准备了两辆16座的马车。马车的出发点在一家制帽店前面，这家制帽店有个招牌，上面用拉丁语写着Omnès Omnibus（all for all），其中的omnibus意思是“for all”，与他的这种公共马车性质非常契合。因此，他就把自己经营的这种公共马车称为omnibus，这就是公共汽车的前身。单词bus就是omnibus的简称。

在餐馆中，那些推着小推车负责上菜、收拾餐桌的助理服务员被称为busboy，因为他们所推的小推车有点像bus。

bus：n.公共汽车

omnibus：n.公共汽车，文集adj.综合性的

该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：bus 词源，bus 含义。

bus：公共汽车

截取自拉丁词omnibus, 为前缀omni- 的属格复数。原指一种四轮公共马车。