喜樂美語
  1. 1nB1/ˈerlaɪn/航空公司

    a company that owns airplanes and flies people or things to different places for money.

    示範例句 · Example

    Our airline let us change the flight time for free because of the heavy rain.

    逐字我們的航空公司因為大雨免費讓我們更改了飛行時間。

    airline 指經營飛機、賣機票載人（或貨物）的公司，例如 domestic airline（國內線航空公司）只飛國內城市，international airline（國際線航空公司）會飛到其他國家。買機票、辦登機的時候，你搭的其實是某一家 airline 的飛機，不是「機場」本身——機場只是很多家 airline 一起使用的地方。

    常見搭配

    • an airline ticket

      機票

      a ticket sold by an airline for a flight

      You can pick up your airline ticket at the check-in desk.

    • airline passengers

      航空公司的乘客

      people traveling on a flight

      All airline passengers must show their passport before boarding.

    • domestic airline

      國內線航空公司

      an airline that only flies within one country

      The city is served by several domestic airlines.

    • international airline

      國際線航空公司

      an airline that flies to other countries

      She works for a large international airline based in Taipei.

    意思相近

    carrier

core核心畫面

Picture the name painted on the tail of a plane — the company that owns the aircraft, sells the seats, and runs the . The plane is a machine; the airline is the business behind it, which is why you complain to an airline but board a plane.

可以想成：機尾上漆的那個名字——擁有飛機、賣機位、安排航線的那家公司。飛機是機器，airline 是它背後的公司；所以要抱怨或改票是找 airline，登機登上的則是 the plane。

複數 airlines

意思相近

carrier

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

airlinenoun/ˈɛəˌlaɪn/

  • 1

    A company that flies airplanes to transport people and goods.

    • But already there are some commercial air­lines in the United States which use airplanes cap­able of more than 200 miles an hour.
    • They and the airline itself described an internal process that requires multiple departments to manually redesign the airline’s schedule – a system that works “the vast majority of the time,” Southwest said in a statement. […] Other airlines managed to recover by early this week; at Southwest, the cancellations only increased.

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