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commute from A to B
强调出发地和目的地的方向，from 后为起点，to 后为终点。
She commutes from the suburbs to the city every weekday.
她每个工作日从郊区通勤到市区。
通勤；往返
先理解核心含义，再看它在真实句子里的用法。
通勤；往返
to travel regularly between one's home and place of work or study
She commutes from the suburbs to the city every weekday.
她每个工作日从郊区通勤到市区。
交换；以换取大宗物或总额而减轻(刑罚、义务或付款)但不完全取消；兑现；减少
To exchange substantially; to abate but not abolish completely, a penalty, obligation, or payment in return for a great, single thing or an aggregate; to cash in; to lessen
旅行；往来
To journey, to make a journey
(运算)满足交换律,即操作数顺序改变不影响结果
Of an operation, to be commutative, i.e. to have the property that changing the order of the operands does not change the result.
commute
Base
原形
commutes
3rd person
第三人称单数
commuting
-ing
现在分词
commuted
Past
过去式
commuted
Past participle
过去分词
I commute to work by train every day.
我每天乘火车通勤上班。
She commuted to the office yesterday.
她昨天通勤去了办公室。
He has commuted between these two cities for years.
多年来他一直在两地之间通勤往返。
commute 常用作不及物动词，表示通勤；也可表示减刑或（运算）交换。
I commute to work by train every morning.
我每天早上坐火车通勤上班。
She commutes from the suburbs to the city center.
她从郊区通勤到市中心。
Commuting by bike takes me forty minutes each way.
骑自行车通勤单程要花我四十分钟。
强调出发地和目的地的方向，from 后为起点，to 后为终点。
She commutes from the suburbs to the city every weekday.
她每个工作日从郊区通勤到市区。
between 后接两个地点，表示在两个地方之间定期往返。
He commutes between Boston and New York for work.
他因工作往返于波士顿和纽约之间。
常见于法律语境，指把刑罚等减轻或转换为较轻的处罚。
The court commuted his prison sentence to community service.
法院把他的监禁刑罚改为社区服务。
数学用语，表示两个运算或矩阵满足交换律（A×B = B×A）。
Does this matrix commute with the identity matrix?
这个矩阵与单位矩阵可交换吗？
Not this
I commute with my boss every day.
Use this
I communicate with my boss every day.
动词“commute”意为“通勤、往返”，而表达“交流、沟通”应用“communicate”。二者拼写相近，但意思完全不同。
Not this
I commute to home by subway.
Use this
I commute home by subway.
表示“回家”时，“home”作副词，前面不加介词“to”；若用“work”则说“commute to work”。
Not this
I commute to office by train.
Use this
I commute to the office by train.
“office”是可数名词，单独使用通常要加冠词或其他限定词，如“the office”；固定表达“commute to work”中“work”不用冠词，但不能类推到“office”。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
通勤上下班
She commutes to work by train.
她乘火车通勤上下班。
骑自行车通勤
In summer, I commute by bike.
夏天我骑自行车通勤。
长途通勤
Many workers commute long distances to the city.
许多工人长途通勤进城。
减刑
The court may commute a sentence if new evidence appears.
如果出现新证据，法院可以减刑。
通勤进城
They commute into the city from the suburbs.
他们从郊区通勤进城。
《指环王》中“One does not simply walk into Mordor”的流行变体梗，把“walk”换成“commute”，夸张地形容通勤之路像踏入魔多一样艰难。
I commute to work by train, and it feels like a journey into Mordor.
我每天乘火车通勤上班，感觉就像踏上一段去往魔多的旅程。
Use commute naturally, then get feedback on meaning, tone, grammar, and phrasing.
Revisit a common error or keep this word in your review list.
联想每天“可缪特”（kəˈmjuːt）地来回跑：从家到公司再返回，就是通勤 commute。记住“来回跑”这个画面。
语域：mixed 常见场景：日常通勤、法律/正式文书、数学/技术讨论 「commute」的语域随义项变化：表示「通勤」时多用于日常口语和一般书面语，比较中性；表示「减刑、折算」时通常出现在法律或正式语境；表示「满足交换律」时常见于数学或技术讨论。使用时建议根据具体义项选择合适语域。
These words all rhyme with commute's stressed syllable /mjuːt/ (the /juːt/ ending): mute, cute, compute, dispute, acute. Be careful: compute looks like commute but has /p/ before /juːt/, while commute has /m/; minute (noun, /ˈmɪnɪt/) looks like it has the same -ute spelling but is pronounced completely differently.
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.