n. 旅客;乘客;过路人;碍手碍脚的人
passenger 旅客,乘客
来自法语passer,走过,经过,-enger,人,词源同messenger.引申词义旅客,乘客。
And in this I resemble the Lappwing, who fearing hir young ones to be destroyed by passengers, flyeth with a false cry farre from their nestes, making those that looke for them seeke where they are not .... [John Lyly, "Euphues and His England," 1580]The -n- was added early 15c. (compare messenger, harbinger, scavenger, porringer). Meaning "one traveling in a vehicle or vessel" first attested 1510s. Passenger-pigeon of North America so called from 1802; extinct since 1914.