| 词汇 | commuted |
| 释义 | commuted past simple and past participle ofcommute commute verb uk /kəˈmjuːt/ us /kəˈmjuːt/ commuteverb (TRAVEL)C1[ I ] to make the same journey regularly between work and home: 上下班往返；往返于工作地点与家之间；通勤 It's exhausting commuting from Brighton to London every day.每天上下班要往返于布赖顿与伦敦之间，令人疲惫不堪。 Travelling around Robin Hood's barnidiom backpack bag drop bourne bum bum around communication commuting connection hitch move negotiate public transport Robin Hood shuttle super-commuting taken transoceanic visa well travelled commuteverb (CHANGE)[ T ]formal to change one thing into another: 变换，改变 People used to believe that you could commute base metals into gold.人们过去曾认为能将贱金属变成黄金。 [ T ] finance & economics specialized to exchange one type of payment for a different type: 改变，改换（支付方式） I think I'll commute my life insurance into an annuity.我想把人寿保险改为年金保险。 [ T ] law specialized to change a punishment to one that is less severe: 减轻（刑罚） Her sentence was commuted from death to life imprisonment.对她的判决由死刑减为无期徒刑。 Changing about-face about-turn alterable altered alternate churn make an about-turn make something into something malleable meta metamorphose morph mutate pervert revolutionize rollback rotation rotational sanitization transcribe You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Replacing and exchanging Not punishing & reducing punishment Examples of commutedcommuted In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Of those who migrated, 71 per cent were engaged in long distance migration while the remaining 21 per cent commuted with livestock. In the case of petty traffickers, the sentence was often commuted. That sentence was commuted swiftly to twenty, then ten years. However, this is an overestimate since mill workers commuted. The first case is when both reductions are performed independently, and hence can be commuted. Some 40,000 workers were employed in the zone on a daily basis, many of whom commuted to work from the countryside and surrounding towns. After each iteration, the value of the money purchase account is compared with the commuted value of the minimum benefit. The death sentence originally given for this lapse was later commuted to 20 years hard labour. In the early part of the century, thousands of ruralbased building workers commuted to the city on a daily basis. Two convictions were quashed on appeal and the remainder were commuted to life imprisonment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In both cases, we propose that the death sentences be commuted to life imprisonment or another appropriate custodial sentence. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English The sentence was commuted to life imprisonment and, like all life sentences, was reduced to 21 years, and then to 15 years. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 His sentence was commuted to a life sentence. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 As the commuted sums will repay local authority debt, cancelling out the loss of annual grant, the effect on local authority resources will be neutral. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Part of an officer's pension can be commuted, at a higher rate than has hitherto applied, in accordance with tables prepared by actuaries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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