• vt. 運送；裝貨；使充滿
• n. 貨運；運費；船貨

來自Proto-Germanic*fra-aigan, *fra, 整個的，*aigan, 擁有，所有，詞源同own.即所有物，裝上船的，發貨的。其原義僅指水運或船運，后詞義通用化。

freight

freight: see fraught

freight (n.)

early 15c. "transporting of goods and passengers by water," variant of fraght, which is from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German vracht, vrecht (see fraught). Danish fragt, Swedish frakt apparently also are from Dutch or Frisian. Also from Low German are Portuguese frete, Spanish flete, and French fret, which might have changed the vowel in this variant of the English word. Meaning "cargo of a ship" is from c. 1500. Freight-train is from 1841.

freight (v.)

"to load (a ship) with goods or merchandise for shipment," mid-15c. variant of Middle English fraught (v.) "to load (a ship)," c. 1400; see fraught, and compare freight (n.). Figuratively, "to carry or transport," 1530s. Related: Freighted; freighting.

1. On the customs declaration, the sender labeled the freight as agricultural machinery.

在報關單上，寄貨人將貨物列為農用機械。

來自柯林斯例句

2. The railways will carry a far higher proportion of freight traffic.

鐵路將承擔比例高得多的貨運量。

來自柯林斯例句

3. Environmental pressures are strengthening the case for waterborne freight.

環境的壓力使人們更加認可水上運輸。

來自柯林斯例句

4. to send goods by air freight

空運貨物

來自《權威詞典》

5. Freight trains travel slowly on upgrades into the hills.

火車徐徐向山上駛去.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》