喜樂美語

You can picture a large horse-drawn carriage that carries people somewhere. Two families grow from this one picture: things that carry passengers (bus, train car, plane seats), and a person who 'carries' you toward a goal (a trainer or tutor).

可以想成一輛載人的大馬車，把人從一處帶到另一處。coach 的兩大家族都從這個畫面長出來：一邊是「載客的車廂」（長途巴士、火車車廂、飛機經濟艙），另一邊是「把你載向目標的人」（教練、家教）——後者是用馬車「把學生載過考試」這個比喻延伸出來的。

From the word’s history

From Hungarian 'kocsi', a carriage from the village of Kocs (1550s). The 'trainer/tutor' sense is 1830s Oxford slang: a tutor who 'carries' a student through an exam, like a coach carrying a passenger; the sports sense followed around 1861.

源自匈牙利文 kocsi，指匈牙利 Kocs 村出產的馬車（約1550年代）。「教練、家教」這個意思是1830年代牛津的學生俚語：把學生「載過」考試的老師，就像馬車把乘客載到目的地一樣；運動教練的用法約1861年才出現。

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同家族的字

n複數 coaches

v過去式 coached過去分詞 coached-ing coaching三單 coaches

意思相反

first classbusiness class

原始詞典資料13 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。

coachnoun/kəʊtʃ/

  • 1

    A wheeled vehicle, generally pulled by a horse.

    • I have a coach waiting. During intermission, would you consent to accompany me for a cooling ride around the city?
  • 2

    rail-transportrailwaystransportA passenger car, either drawn by a locomotive or part of a multiple unit.

  • 3

    A trainer or instructor.

    • football coach
    • spelling coach
  • 4

    A long-distance, or privately hired, bus.

  • 5

    nauticaltransportThe forward part of the cabin space under the poop deck of a sailing ship; the fore-cabin under the quarter deck.

    • The commanders all came on board and the council sat in the coach.
  • 6

    The part of a commercial passenger airplane or train reserved for those paying the lower standard fares; the economy section.

    • We couldn't afford the good tickets, so we spent the flight crammed in coach.
  • 7

    The lower-fare service whose passengers sit in this part of the airplane or train; economy class.

coachverb/kəʊtʃ/

  • 1

    hobbieslifestylesportsTo train.

  • 2

    To instruct; to train.

    • She has coached many opera stars.
  • 3

    To study under a tutor.

  • 4

    To travel in a coach (sometimes coach it).

    • Affecting genteel fashions, coaching it to all quarters
  • 5

    To convey in a coach.

    • The needy poet sticks to all he meets, Coached, carted, trod upon, now loose, now fast. And carried off in some dog's tail at last

coachadv/kəʊtʃ/

  • 1

    Via the part of a commercial passenger airplane or train reserved for those paying the lower standard fares; via the economy section.

    • John flew coach to Vienna, but first-class back home.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。