transit
n
1 [U] process of going or being taken or transported from one place to another 搬运; 载运; 运输
goods delayed or lost in transit 在运输中延误或遗失的货物
[attrib 作定语]
an urban rapid-transit system 城市高速运输系统.
2 [C, U] (astronomy 天) movement of one object in space (eg a planet) between another and an observer, so that the first seems to pass across the surface of the second 宇宙中一天体(如一行星)运行到另一天体与观察者之间, 使前者如同经过後者之表面; 凌日
observe the transit of Venus, eg across the sun 观测金星之凌日.
Kunta wondered why the white people had done this to him.
孔塔不知道白人为什么要这样对待他。
At the time of his death, one person praised him as follows: Future generations, it may be, will hardly believe that such a person as this walked upon this earth.