- 1公車(複數)— 現代標準拼法是 buses,busses 是舊式或美式少見寫法
A plural form of 'bus' — more than one bus. Here is the thing to understand: 'buses' and 'busses' are both correct English, but they are not equally common. 'Buses' with one s is the normal, standard spelling everywhere today, and it is what you should write. 'Busses' is an older, less used spelling that you will still find in some American writing and in older books. If you write it, nobody will call it wrong, but it looks dated, and some readers will assume it is a typo. The reason English hesitates is that a one-syllable word ending in a single s usually doubles that s before an ending — gas→gasses (as a verb), quiz→quizzes — but 'bus' is a word (from omnibus) and never fully settled into that rule. Note too that 'busses' is also the third-person form of the old verb 'buss' meaning 'to kiss': 'She busses him on the cheek.' That meaning is rare, so context makes it clear.
組成bus + -es, the plural ending, with the s doubled. 'Bus' itself is a shortening of omnibus, a Latin word meaning 'for all' — a vehicle for everybody.
原始詞典資料5 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。
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。