| 单词 | jitney |
| 例句 | The jitney takes about twenty minutes to drop me off at Mr. Reilly’s work. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The jitney, which is what rich people call the shuttle, goes up at seven, and I can drop the pieces off then. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Back up in Amagansett, I sat on a bench on Route 27 and waited for a 4:20 a.m. jitney back home. Does This Swimsuit Make Me Look Fat? 2011-06-08T20:34:03Z Mr. Rodriguez didn’t elaborate, but he suggested it lasted beyond the last jitney west. Tribes of Saturday Night: Summer’s Last Call: Saturday Night in Montauk 2013-08-28T23:00:10Z Even if Chuck Berry never sang all of those beautiful words about V-8s, jitneys, limousines and Coupe de Villes, it was obvious that he was making a new kind of car music. Perspective | Chuck Berry helped build rock-and-roll. Then he took it for a ride. 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Did a similar trip a few years ago but took local jitney's, buses, trains, taxies, even a small plane. Seeing Africa by Road 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Two weeks ago, I took a late jitney to East Hampton and called seven cab companies from the bus. Muffled in the Hamptons, Uber Makes Some Noise 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z But the second the jitney turns into the South Fork, and I start to see trees, my shoulders drop.” Jose Llana (a.k.a. Ferdinand Marcos) Makes a Home in the Hamptons 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z “When I was younger and couldn’t afford an actual vacation, I would bring my toddler on an adventure I called ‘the bus to the boat to the jitney to the beach,’ ” Coven said. Readers voted on their favorite Seattle beaches. Here are the winners 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z He had just come from helping at his church’s soup kitchen and now was at Tops, volunteering in the community jitney service that shuttles people without a ride to and from the store. ‘Like every other day:’ 10 lives lost on a trip to the store 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z Because cabdrivers refused to go there, residents relied for decades on private jitneys to get around — cars that followed set routes through the community. Without access to charging stations, Black and Hispanic communities may be left behind in the era of electric vehicles 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z I couldn’t agree more with Brian Broome’s Nov. 9 Tuesday Opinion column, “So long, jitneys — and farewell to our connective tissue.” Opinion | From one curmudgeon to another, let’s talk 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z What did work for a time were the “trackless trolleys” of Laurel Canyon, wheeled jitneys operating on power from overhead lines. You know Angels Flight. But what about L.A.’s other funicular railways? 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z Some are braving the trains; others the jitney. 5 New Yorkers Escaped the City for Fresh Air and Space. Was It Worth It? 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z These jitney drivers, operating outside the licensed system of white-run taxi companies that refuse to service the black neighborhoods, are a ragtag group. Review: 'Jitney,' once considered lesser August Wilson, gets a major revival 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z For this story from our Nov. 11 Travel issue, we boarded the jitney to East Hampton. Fashion for a Walk on the Waterfront 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z Police say Donahue was drunk when he drove the wrong way in the tunnel on Feb. 26 and collided with a jitney bus, injuring four of the 15 people on board. Jets linebacker pleads guilty to drunken driving in crash 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z In 1915, steam-powered buses took the jitneys’ place, and the thrill, along with the charm, was gone. You know Angels Flight. But what about L.A.’s other funicular railways? 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z It's not right that these jitney services worsen just getting around for most of us. John Zimmer Would Rather Die Than Take an Uber 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z But Wilson is less interested in mining any potential melodrama than he is in exploring the contrasting worldviews between the aptly named Youngblood and the older jitney drivers, who challenge, rebuke and encourage him. Review: 'Jitney,' once considered lesser August Wilson, gets a major revival 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z Those agents, who drive pick-up trucks, are different than the parking enforcement agents that ticket vehicles for meter violations and other offenses, who drive small vehicles sometimes called jitneys. San Diego issues parking tickets to well-wishers saluting fallen Marine 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Those agents, who drive pickup trucks, are different than the parking enforcement agents that ticket vehicles for meter violations and other offenses, who drive small vehicles sometimes called jitneys. Outrage after police issue parking tickets to mourners honoring fallen Marine 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Police allege that Donahue was drunk when he drove the wrong way in the tunnel on Feb. 26 and collided with a jitney bus, injuring four of the 15 people on board. Jets linebacker waives court appearance in wrong-way crash 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z The jitney bus overturned around 8:30 a.m. State police: No serious injuries after van overturns 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z This is the dramatic context for this jitney station, which is about to be boarded up by the city so that it can eventually be torn down. Review: 'Jitney,' once considered lesser August Wilson, gets a major revival 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z Port Authority of New York and New Jersey police say Bertha Moreno was driving a jitney bus Monday afternoon when an officer recognized the vehicle’s registration as a suspected toll evader. Police: Jitney driver owes more than $50,000 in tolls, fees 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z Even as late as the 1970s, jitneys, as they were called, were ferrying up to 7,000 people to and from downtown. Daily Report: Fear and Loathing in the Tech Industry 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Police said another car pulled up to the jitney and opened fire. Attempted homicide conviction in shooting of elderly driver 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z By April the travelers finally reached Hungary, from which they could travel by jitney cabs and public transport links within the largely passport-free EU to Germany and France. African migrants find shelter in EU heart after hard journey 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z By April they finally reached Hungary, from which they could travel by jitney cabs and public transport links within the largely passport-free EU to Germany and France. African migrants find uneasy EU shelter after rough journey 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Authorities say the EZ-Pass transponder being used in the jitney was only appropriate for use in a passenger vehicle. Police: Jitney driver owes more than $50,000 in tolls, fees 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z One didn’t see the harm, pointing to the city’s history of "traffic buster" jitneys, which helped get urban commuters to Caltrain stops. All aboard San Francisco's startup bus craze with 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z Leap joins Chariot, Loup, and several private jitney services in the city, and may be the best of them all. In San Francisco, A Private Bus That Runs Like A Coffee Shop 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z In other countries, mini-buses that occupy a gray world between public and private transportation go by many names: jitneys, matatus, "informal" transit. Ford is experimenting with its own Uber-like app — and a vehicle to go with it 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z Similar services, sometimes called jitneys, have operated in San Francisco, New York, Chicago and Houston. D.C. taxi commission chief offers a final plan to push fleet into the modern age “We want to protect the industry,” said Sergio Garces, 59, a Chilean immigrant and president of a recently formed association of jitney drivers. New Jersey Jitney Drivers Squeezed Between Competition and Demands for More Safety 2013-08-13T14:33:19Z The sign for the jitney remains parallel to the trunk. Sandy Rips through My Street 2012-11-05T19:47:53.957Z Gasoline in those parts costs four dollars a gallon, while if you hire a jitney you pay for it at the rate of a dollar a mile. The Romance of a Great Store 2012-02-20T03:00:21.577Z The men who hang around the jitney office, mostly the drivers, are identifiable types, but they are never caricatures. | New Jersey: August Wilson?s ?Jitney? at the Two River Theater ? Review 2012-02-11T05:01:24Z For she used the car as a jitney bus. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z “I don’t like them,” he said as he let numerous jitneys pass in favor of the next New Jersey Transit bus. New Jersey Jitney Drivers Squeezed Between Competition and Demands for More Safety 2013-08-13T14:33:19Z By this time the jitney party had been picked up one after another, and now all arrived at the Vernons’ house for the last passenger. Girl Scouts at Dandelion Camp 2011-10-21T02:00:19.027Z Dad says I have to be sixteen before I can have a license to drive a jitney. Natalie: A Garden Scout 2011-09-18T02:00:30.203Z To her surprise she recognized the driver and machine as being of the regular jitney service between the campus and the town. Marjorie Dean College Junior 2011-08-27T02:00:22.827Z But, learning that there was a movie in a near-by village, they secured two jitneys and gave a party for the inmates. Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z Following the accident in West New York, the Hudson County sheriff, Frank Schillari, announced what he called “a massive crackdown” on the jitney buses. New Jersey Jitney Drivers Squeezed Between Competition and Demands for More Safety 2013-08-13T14:33:19Z The truck and jitney then started for Dandelion Camp, the happy givers picturing how delighted the scouts would be to receive the shower of furniture. Girl Scouts at Dandelion Camp 2011-10-21T02:00:19.027Z “Well, you can argue out the question about a jitney license, but I must go back to my flowers,” said Norma, getting up from the steps and starting for the roundel. Natalie: A Garden Scout 2011-09-18T02:00:30.203Z We would have to make arrangements then with the jitney men to carry them back and forth, morning and night. Marjorie Dean, College Senior 2011-08-01T02:00:12.720Z I had gone about two blocks when I met a jitney. Marjorie Dean College Freshman 2011-07-27T02:00:32.033Z “We want to change the image of the industry,” said José H. Valdez, another leader of the association and a jitney driver from El Salvador. New Jersey Jitney Drivers Squeezed Between Competition and Demands for More Safety 2013-08-13T14:33:19Z Finally the truck halted, and the jitney traveled on a few hundred feet in advance before it, too, had to stop. Girl Scouts at Dandelion Camp 2011-10-21T02:00:19.027Z Norma dropped her trowel and fork and raced after Belle to the gate to watch the private jitney go past. Natalie: A Garden Scout 2011-09-18T02:00:30.203Z Mothballing the shuttles was fine, but it's a little as if America opened an orbital B&B and then junked the jitneys that were needed to get the vacationers back and forth. The Soyuz is America's no-frills ride to space 2011-07-21T06:30:00Z I never enjoyed meeting anyone so much before as that jitney man. Marjorie Dean College Freshman 2011-07-27T02:00:32.033Z I've never yet seen a jitney driver who did not have a shady face. Tripping with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:21.613Z Presently a man alighted from a taxicab, or rather, one of the town’s few jitney cars, and entered the tea room. The Motor Girls at Camp Surprise The Cave in the Mountains 2011-06-16T02:00:18.377Z But at a party for Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic at the Bridgehampton Tennis and Surf Club, we wondered whether the stars had already hopped the jitney back home. Nocturnalist: As Hamptons Season Opens, Heading East for Celebrities 2011-06-02T01:30:19Z Then another terrific blast sounded from the Big Bridge, and the girls saw three large jitneys turn in from the main road and pull up before Bill’s cottage. The Woodcraft Girls in the City 2011-03-27T02:00:11.007Z With bike carts hitched on back, they were dubbed "jitneys," from the old-fashioned British word for small vehicle, The Wall Street Journal reports. A Facebook Monopoly on Nouns 2010-08-27T16:27:00Z "To fill up the cracks!" she exclaimed, and with a whirl she was out of the apartment and back in her jitney once more, alert for fares. Tripping with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:21.613Z “It’s probably a garage dating from the stone age when the early inhabitants used the dinosaur as a jitney!” The Motor Girls at Camp Surprise The Cave in the Mountains 2011-06-16T02:00:18.377Z School buses, limousines, jitneys, taxis and other vehicles with commercial plates will still be regularly inspected for emissions and mechanical defects. To Save Money, New Jersey to End Some Car Tests 2010-07-17T04:46:00Z “I hear those jitneys calling ‘Ole Black Joe,’” sang the doctor, as a horn sounded from the foot of the slope. The Woodcraft Girls in the City 2011-03-27T02:00:11.007Z In the morning—morning according to the 24 hour earth clock, that is—they took the jitney rocket to the resort town of Augea, in the Hercules Mountains. Brink of Madness Her face was dirty enough to suit Dee's idea of a jitney driver. Tripping with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:21.613Z Do I even extract from your vest pocket the humble jitney? The Rushton Boys at Rally Hall Or, Great Days in School and Out Larger, as he says, "It will be worth the other jitney." Astounding Stories, February, 1931 Dot felt that the jitney driver was very kind, but she hoped with all her heart that she would not have to stay all night in a strange house. Four Little Blossoms at Brookside Farm It was a long ten-minute jitney ride from the railway station. The Campfire Girls of Roselawn Or, a Strange Message from the Air I was sorry she was so broad-beamed, as it was difficult to get three on the seat while she stayed with me, and of course when you are running a jitney every inch counts. Tripping with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:21.613Z Established members of the congregation, in hired hacks, in jitneys, in rented and privately owned equipages, and also afoot came next. Sundry Accounts And—not that I imagine that any one'll care— I blew that jitney on a subway fare. Something Else Again Sure enough, their jitney had not gone very far when they saw another jitney coming toward them. Four Little Blossoms at Brookside Farm Come, dolly, I have a jitney here, please observe my graceful use of 'jitney,' and I have the bags. Free Air I'm going to turn Henry Ford into a jitney bus. Tripping with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:21.613Z They run away from home to become jitney bus drivers, or movie actors. The Mission of Janice Day And sometimes we go out on the beach and lie on the sand,—he takes me in his jitney. Eve to the Rescue Mr. Gunn stopped his machine and came over to the other jitney. Four Little Blossoms at Brookside Farm Again he risked the scorn of conductors and jitney drivers. Free Air The Tuckers were strong upholders of the poor man's rights and patronized the jitneys whenever their own Henry Ford was out of commission or in use by some other member of the family. Tripping with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:21.613Z Laboriously the jitney snorted through the sand and bumped over tree stumps. An African Adventure We could take the jitney on the state road right up there on the ridge and go straight to Bridgeboro station. Roy Blakeley's Bee-line Hike Just as Mother Blossom was wearily wondering if she should telegraph Father Blossom that Dot was lost, a motor jitney lumbered down to the dock. Four Little Blossoms at Brookside Farm His face was as empty of expression, as unmelodramatic, as that of a jitney driver. Free Air I was not driving a jitney for my health. Tripping with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:21.613Z He used the same jitney that I had started in, and it also broke down with him. An African Adventure Stray dogs sniffing at heaps of refuse, a group of tethered horses shivering under thin blankets in the hotel shed, a battered jitney or two stalled before shop and saloon. The Fifth Ace The chauffeur ran his jitney from the railroad station and was known to Mr. Hammond. Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point One such case, I remember, was that of a man who asked damages from a jitney driver for starting his bus before he had alighted. The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men The day after Dee's success as a jitneur the paper came out with headlines that the jitneys were no longer within the law. Tripping with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:21.613Z The faithful Moody, who preceded me, had revived life in the jonah jitney and at dawn the next day we started at full speed and reached Djoko Punda by noon. An African Adventure The news had traveled quickly over the countryside and every style of conveyance, from a mule-team to the latest improved jitney, lined the plaza. The Fifth Ace He approached the spot where the girl had been left by the jitney driver. Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point "Wouldn't it be funny to see us and the Sans down at the station every day, grabbing the freshies as they came off the train, like a couple of jitney drivers?" Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore Dum had lettered the jitney sign for her the evening before. Tripping with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:21.613Z By this time my confidence in the African jitney was somewhat shaken. An African Adventure "If he gets in the auto-stage, we might hire a jitney," suggested Fatty. The Rover Boys at Colby Hall or The Struggles of the Young Cadets “Take a jitney” is a modern variation of this response which must be counted as satisfactory. The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale But we can probably catch a jitney or something from Wilkes-Barre. Torchy As A Pa Before the hordes of shoppers were disposed of the men and business women began to jitney their way back to their homes for luncheon. Tripping with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:21.613Z At noon of the second day, when we were about to start, the engine went on a sympathetic strike with the jitney, and once more I was halted. An African Adventure "There are six of us, and we could get one of the jitneys to take us over to the Hall, baggage and all, for half a dollar." The Rover Boys at Colby Hall or The Struggles of the Young Cadets I left word what station they was to get off at, and 'phoned for a couple of jitneys to meet 'em. Torchy, Private Sec. "Probably the only gasoline vehicles they have in the place are jitneys," agreed Mollie, with a chuckle. The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point Or a Wreck and a Rescue But we managed to keep that little jitney head-on, and pretty soon we knew it wasn't a case of drowning, but more likely a case of starving. Roy Blakely, Pathfinder When I said that I wanted to push on to Tshikapa at once, Moody said, "We will leave at five in the morning in one of the jitneys and be in Tshikapa tomorrow night." An African Adventure He left the pneumatic tube and climbed on the jitney that wound its way through the corridors of the pathology sector and into the quiet, austere quarters of the resident pathologists. Star Surgeon At the shop he came to, and presently, in the jitney again, he was blissfully aware of Geoffry Chester on the swift running-board, questioning his mother and Aline by turns. The Flower of the Chapdelaines Instead of which he runs this here music store, sells these jitney pianos and phonographs and truck like that. Somewhere in Red Gap We conquered our tendency to scamper panic-stricken for the sidewalk at the raucous bark of a jitney bus. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 Since my faith in the jitney was still impaired I chose the river route and it gave me the most stirring of all my African experiences. An African Adventure "You'll get used to it," Tiger Martin chuckled as they waited for the jitney to take them across to the launching pad. Star Surgeon As he backed off--"Take care!" was the cry, but he sprang the wrong way and a hurrying jitney cast him yards distant, where he lay unconscious and bleeding. The Flower of the Chapdelaines Madison Avenue and Thirty-Second——" "Maybe I can flag a jitney for you. The Haunted Bookshop He caught one of the swarm of jitneys that overran the camp each evening, and in half an hour was set down in front of the Stonewall Hotel on the hot and drowsy main street. The Beautiful and Damned I didn't raise my Ford to be a jitney— ��To run the streets, and stay out late at night! T. Haviland Hicks Senior A jitney stopped for them, and then zoomed out across the field toward the ship. Star Surgeon They put him and the four ladies into the jitney and sent them there, and the world moved on. The Flower of the Chapdelaines "We'll hire a jitney of some sort down at the livery." The Radio Boys' First Wireless Or Winning the Ferberton Prize Anthony circulated for a while among the groups—then, stopping a jitney, rode down to tell Dot that he was going away. The Beautiful and Damned "Let me check you fellows off," said Hicks, importantly, peering into the jitney, for he, as Team Manager, had to handle the traveling expenses. T. Haviland Hicks Senior An army truck may bring them, or it may be they have a battered jitney to move them and their scanty outfits. The War Romance of the Salvation Army "No, he's alive," said one who lifted him, to the two jitney passengers, who pushed into the throng. The Flower of the Chapdelaines After breakfast he started down town to see about the jitney, met Joe on the way, and the two boys went on together, talking excitedly of their preparations. The Radio Boys' First Wireless Or Winning the Ferberton Prize At seven he would be in a jitney bound for the city, where hundreds of little Southern girls were waiting on moonlit porches for their lovers. The Beautiful and Damned I c'n get a jitney somewheres I guess ta take me. The City of Fire They can if I send them over in the jitney which will be quicker, and save them some hard riding. The Boy Ranchers on the Trail "He was the fellow that drove the jitney, wasn't he?" 100%: the Story of a Patriot With the agility of a boy he sprang into his clothes, raced downstairs, and leaped into Mayor Poundstone's jitney, standing in the darkness at the front gate. The Valley of the Giants Now the train is gone," scolded Tessie, "and we have to take that horrid old jitney out to the junction. The Girl Scout Pioneers or Winning the First B. C. You can bet your last jitney I'll be careful what I smoke in the future, if I have to smoke only original packages. Gold of the Gods Every trolley, every suburban train, every jitney, was crammed with the pan-antis, clad in white, carrying the buttons, ribbons and banners that had been prepared for this great occasion. In the Sweet Dry and Dry They would send the railroad "jitney" to our hotel to pick up the baggage and us to catch the 12 o'clock train for Balboa. Epistles from Pap: Letters from the man known as 'The Will Rogers of Indiana' I'll sell it to you—five hundred down upon the signing of the agreement, and in lieu of the cash, I will take over that jitney Mrs. Poundstone finds so distasteful. The Valley of the Giants "Here we are," whispered the latter, as the jitney jolted to a standstill. The Girl Scout Pioneers or Winning the First B. C. Not liking suspense, he stepped off the pavement and dodged a jitney, and hurried over to interview the cashier. The Heritage of the Sioux I'm on my way to the Woolston mills, and I missed so many trains, and caught so many jitneys I lost count. The Girl Scout Pioneers or Winning the First B. C. |
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