English Dictionary

straphanger

名詞

A person who travels using public transportation (often standing up and holding on to a strap).

日本語の意味

公共交通機関を利用する人（多くの場合、立って乗車し、吊りストラップなどに掴まる人）

As a daily straphanger, Maria learned to read while standing on the crowded subway.

毎日公共交通機関を利用し、つり革につかまって立つことが多いマリアは、混雑した地下鉄の中で立ったまま読書をするようになった。

意味（1）

A person who travels using public transportation (often standing up and holding on to a strap).

For several days, Mr. Sammler returning on the customary bus late afternoons from the Forty-second Street Library had been watching a pickpocket at work […] Mr. Sammler if he had not been a tall straphanger would not with his one good eye have seen these things happening.

straphangers （ plural ）