fare

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Related topics: Transport, Motor vehicles

fare1 /feə $ fer/ noun → fair

1 [countableC]TTCOST the price you pay to travel somewhere by bus, train, plane etc 〔公共汽车、火车、飞机等的〕票价

bus/train/air/cab fare

Air fares have shot up by 20%.

飞机票价已猛涨20%。

half-fare/full-fare

Children under 14 travel half-fare.

14岁以下儿童半票。

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2 FOOD[uncountableU] written food, especially food served in a restaurant or eaten on a special occasion 〔尤指餐厅或特殊场合吃的〕饭菜

traditional Christmas fare

传统的圣诞节食物

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3. [countableC]TTCTRAVEL a passenger in a taxi 出租车乘客

4 [uncountableU] something that is offered to the public, especially as entertainment 供大众使用的东西〔尤指作娱乐之用〕

The movie is suitable family fare.

这部电影适合全家人一起观看。

Examples from the Corpus

fare• A one-week stay in Majorca costs $779 including air fare.• Room, air fare and one show ticket: $ 400 to $ 470, also two nights.• The biggest fare increases were on the Kansas City to Minneapolis line.• I said, miming standard television sit-com fare.• The Elephant and Castle is known for its traditional English fare.• The full excess fare had to be paid.• The movie is suitable family fare.• Lindsey Inn, offers an assortment of hearty fare and seafood dishes in a comfortable atmosphere.• Goose, duck, and turkey are typical holiday fare in the Netherlands.• The specials, publicized only on the Internet and good for weekend getaways, are far lower than any other fares.• Children will be thrilled to find such simple fare as macaroni and cheese on the menu.• I had to walk home because I didn't have enough money for the fare.• The fare laid before Botha last night was hardly epicurean.• The fare is cheaper on Saturdays and Sundays.• The only possible response from the independents would be to also reduce their fares but without the cross-funding safety net.• Finally run out of money and had to borrow train fare from Chamonix to Geneva.• How much is the train fare from Toronto to Montreal?

bus/train/air/cab fare• Not included: ground and air fare.• The service also can book air fare, ground transportation, lift tickets and more.• Not included: international air fare and port taxes.• The Sisters soon realised that many of the patients could not afford the bus or train fare every week.• With each call, the CalPIRG callers asked for the lowest possible air fare on a specific route for a specific date.• He was trying to save bus fares so he could buy a new bike.• Head whirling, she went into a travel agency and enquired the air fare to Toronto.• The cab fare was thirty-three dollars.

fare2 verb

fare well/badly/better etc SUCCEED IN DOING somethingto be successful, unsuccessful etc 成功/失败/更成功等

Although Chicago has fared better than some cities, unemployment remains a problem.

虽说芝加哥比其他一些城市情况好些，但失业仍是个问题。

He wondered how Ed had fared in the interview.

他想知道埃德面试情况如何。

Examples from the Corpus

fare well/badly/better etc• Life may be regarded as an austere struggle, blighted by fate, where only the rich and the lucky fare well.• There is no reason to believe that diabetic patients fare better and they may do less well.• Not faring well, but resting.• Obviously some clothiers fared better than others for there were quite a large number of bankruptcies between 1800 and 1840.• It can be seen that, whilst all regions reflected the higher national unemployment rate, some regions fared better than others.• The Bloomberg Indiana Index fared better than the benchmark Standard.• It still fared better than the broader market.• I think the men fared better than the women.

Examples from the Corpus

fare• I always enjoyed walking the full length of the street to check how the other shops were faring.• Although here, too, Chicago had fared better than many older cities, unemployment remained a serious, seemingly intractable problem.• Yeb isn't faring much better.• I do consider myself a storyteller... and yet I am concerned that education is faring so badly.• First, there is the demand that individual animals have a life that fares well, all considered.• Even in cities which generally fared well in the face of federal budget cuts, the impacts in these areas were significant.• In the major terminal breeds, the Charolais fares worst with up to 17.3 percent of difficult calvings in some herds.

From Longman Business Dictionary

farefare /feəfer/ noun [countableC]TRAVEL

the price paid to travel by plane, train etc

With cheaper air fares, travelers have more vacation choices.

South Yorkshire’s low bus fares are persuading drivers to leave their cars at home.

Children under 14 travel half fare.

Only half of the passengers had paid full fare.

→ advance purchase fare → business class fare → coach fare → excess fare → first-class fare → off-peak fare → one-way fare → open-jaw fare → peak fare → peak season fare → return fare → single fare

Origin fare1

Old English faru “journey”

fare1 nounfare2 verb

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