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欢迎乘坐我们的出租车！is an idiomatic Chinese sentence. When a passenger enters a taxi, the driver can use it as a greeting. By word-for-word translation,

欢迎: welcome (to)

乘坐: take

我们的: our

出租车: taxi

To make it a sentence: Welcome to take our taxi!. But from the English perspective, Welcome to take our taxi! is a wrong sentence. So, I have some difficulty to turn that Chinese sentence into English.

By the way, some cabs in Shanghai have a machine installed. When a customer enters the car, it will play the utterance: Welcome to take our taxi!. It just sounds ugly to an English native's ear.

Any suggestions?

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    Even though is not suitable, but how about "welcome aboard" ?
    – Revol729
    Jul 13, 2018 at 3:32
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    +1 Agree with Revol729, just use Welcome Aboard is enough
    – Ray
    Jul 13, 2018 at 3:49
  • @dan Isn't it "Welcome to take my taxi"? Also you might find this reddit thread interesting reddit.com/r/EnglishLearning/comments/8nxxcm/… - one comment says: However, American taxi drivers are often English Learners as well, so while it's not correct, it is potentially something you would hear from a friendly taxi driver.
    – Mou某 ♦
    Jul 13, 2018 at 4:20
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    @user3306356 taxi cars are owned by a company, hence it's our taxi.
    – dan
    Jul 13, 2018 at 4:23
  • Mainly about English
    – user19549
    Jul 13, 2018 at 6:06

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maybe:

"nice to meet you, welcome aboard"

if, said by machine, try

"welcome aboard of this XXX (company name) taxi"

have fun :)

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