多學壹點點 便車?
「便車」英文美式叫ride，英式叫lift。在西方，偶然會見到公路旁有人翹起拇指向駕車者示意，或手持寫了目的地的標示牌，那是請人家給他們搭便車，這種搭便車方式叫to hitch a ride / lift，例如：Tom's car ran out of gas, and he had to hitch a ride with a truck driver.（湯姆汽車的汽油用光了，他只有在路旁求搭便車，獲得壹位貨車司機送了壹程。）Hitch本來是「鉤住」的意思，to hitch a ride 有「用拇指把汽車鉤過來」含義。?
搭便車旅遊叫hitchhike，例如：He hitchhiked his way all over Taiwan.（他搭便車遍遊臺灣。）讓人搭便車，是to give somebody a ride / lift，例如：Can you give me a ride to Kaohsiung, please?（可以讓我搭便車去高雄嗎？）Women should not accept rides from strangers. 即「婦女不宜答應搭陌生人的便車」。?
留意to give somebody a ride 跟 to take somebody for a ride 不同。To take somebody for a ride. 是「欺騙某人」，例如：He found himself taken for a ride when the woman handed him over to the police. (那女人把他交給警方時，他才發覺自己上了當。）