英语释义

1. a benefit obtained at another's expense or without the usual cost or effort
… a group of students who have been assigned to do a report where only one student cares, does all the work and the others go along for a free ride …
— Roger T. Johnson and David W. Johnson also soft or easy treatment
Generally speaking, the press has given Jacobson a free ride.
— Spy

2. an arrangement (such as a scholarship) providing a student with tuition at no cost
athletes getting a free ride at college College officials hope that the idea of a free ride to a new engineering school with lofty ambitions will attract a highly accomplished student body …
— Jeffrey Mervis

3. special treatment that involves giving away something that is valuable or expensive

片语

free-fall ride自由落体车乘

A Free Ride占便宜

thumb a ride搭便车；竖起大拇指向过路汽车作手势要求搭车

Free ride to someone给某人搭便车

free-ride problem搭顺路车征象

get a ride搭车；搭便车；顺道搭车

take a free ride免费搭车

Free Bouncy Ride免费而且有弹性的座椅

California Free Ride唱片名

英汉例句

• hackers view this 「feature」 as a free ride on the xmlmobile, waving at the firewall sentries as they happily pass by.

  黑客将这种「特性」看作 xml 提供的免费服务，他们可以利用这种特性轻松地通过防火墻。

• george got a free ride to tufts. mike went to columbia.

  他俩成功了，乔治去了塔夫茨，迈克去了哥伦比亚。

• in the past, the homeless were offered a free ride to one of the city’s warehouse-like shelters.

  在过去，有免费的车辆把无家可归者送到城市里类似仓库的避难所。

• china has global interests, cannot free ride forever, and requires a presence in critical areas and situations in order to have a voice.

  拥有全球利益的中国不能永远搭便车，它需要在关键地区和形势中展示自己的存在，以便行使自己的话语权。

• grown-ups understand that a free ride is an occasional nice surprise, not a way of life.

  成熟的人们都理解免费的午餐是种偶尔的惊喜，但不是生活的方式。

• by refusing to agree to appropriate terms for nokia「s intellectual property, apple is attempting to get a free ride on the back of nokia」s innovation.

  但是，苹果拒绝认同诺基亚知识产权的合适条款，正试图免费使用诺基亚的创新成果。

• the winner of the show will be showered with prizes, including a free ride to a summer music program designed to hone their skills.

  真人秀的冠军将得到丰厚奖励，包括一个提高他们技能的免费夏季音乐计划。

• for shareware authors, the era of the free ride is well and truly over.

  对于软件作者而言，免费乘车的时代已经真正结束了。

• that night he was out of money, and he tried to bum a free ride off the bus driver.

  那天晚上他身无分文，想试着跟巴士司机讨得一次搭顺风车的机会。

• but organising 5m drivers to fight back was a hard task, because each driver could hope for a free ride on the efforts of the others, and none had much to gain personally by joining the group.

  但要组织五百万的司机对此进行抗议却并非易事，因为每个人都希望他人出力而自己则「搭便车」，坐享其成，而且任何人加入集体后能给他自身带来的利益是微乎其微的。

• i'm getting tired of john expecting me to give him a free ride to work everyday.

  每约翰每天早上都指望我让他搭顺风车上班，挺烦人的。

• 「i hitchhiked to the channel tunnel, got a free ride as the passenger of a french woman and hitched to brittany,」 she said。

  她说：「我先搭顺风车到了隧道口，然后又碰到一位法国女士把我免费带到了目的地。」

• and perhaps more importantly, nobody is really getting a free ride – at least in principle.

  或许更重要的是，双方都付出了代价，没人可以免费搭便车——至少在原则上是这样。