shipping

Compared meaning: the system of moving people or goods (noun).

比较义项：运输（运送人员或货物的系统或工具）（名词）。

• transportation

  The standard American English word for the general system of moving people or goods, as in "public transportation"; often used in formal, official contexts such as city planning.

  这是表示运送人员或货物的系统或工具的标准美式英语用词，如「public transportation」，常用于正式或官方语境，例如城市规划。

  Public transportation is cheaper than driving your own car.

  公共交通比开自己的车更便宜。

• transport

  The British English equivalent of transportation, used the same way for people or goods, as in "public transport"; using "transportation" instead would sound American rather than British.

  这是transportation的英式英语对应说法，同样指运送人员或货物的系统或工具，如「public transport」；若在英式语境中用transportation，则会显得像美式英语而非英式英语。

  Public transport gets me to work faster than driving alone.

  公共交通让我上班比独自开车更快。

• shipping 本词

  Refers only to moving goods, never people, especially commercial delivery of purchased items; common in phrases like "free shipping" or "shipping costs", unlike the broader transportation/transport.

  仅指货物（不含人员）的运送，尤指购买商品后的商业配送，常见搭配如「free shipping」（免费配送）或「shipping costs」（运费），用法比transportation和transport更狭窄。

  The company offers free shipping on all orders over fifty dollars.

  该公司对五十美元以上的所有订单提供免费配送服务。

Transportation, transport, and shipping relate to moving people or goods. Transportation and transport mean the same system; transportation is American, transport is British. Shipping only means moving goods, never people, as in 'free shipping'. Transport as a verb and 'shipping industry' are not compared here.

transportation与transport在此义项上是近义词，均指运送人员或货物的系统或工具，主要区别在于地域用法：transportation常见于美式英语，transport则是英式英语中对应的说法。shipping只指货物（不含人员）的运送，尤见于网购、物流等商业配送场景，常与「free shipping」「shipping costs」等搭配连用。此处不比较transport作动词表示「运输」的用法，也不比较shipping作「航运业」整体产业时的用法。