straphanger

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who travels using public transportation (often standing up and holding on to a strap).
    — For several days, Mr. Sammler returning on the customary bus late afternoons from the Forty-second Street Library had been watching a pickpocket at work […] Mr. Sammler if he had not been a tall straphanger would not with his one good eye have seen these things happening.

词形变化

straphangers plural

词源

From strap + hanger.
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