- 词义辨析
boat, ship
这两个词都可译为“船”。它们的区别是:1.boat指小船, ship指大船,但这并无严格界限,一般说木制的船叫boat,能吊离水面的船叫boat,靠帆和桨行驶的船叫boat,个人拥有的船叫boat; 宇宙飞船用ship,航海的船叫ship。一般机动船则称boat或ship都可。泛指大大小小的各种船只时可用boats,也可用ships。试比较:They rowed the boat down the river.他们划着船顺河而下。The boatmen pulled their boat onto the sand.船工们把船拖上沙滩。Australia ships meat to England.澳大利亚用船把肉运到英国。He has taken ship for India.他已乘船到印度去了。The ship is bound for America.这艘轮船是开往美洲去的。The ship is now on her first voyage.这只船是初次航行。A camel is known as the ship of the desert.骆驼被认为是沙漠之舟。2.boat, ship各自构成的复合词和短语很多,各有固定的意思。例如:shipmaster船长〔船主〕, shipwreck船只失事, shipyard船厂,这些词不能用boat 代替ship; 反之, boat 的复合词也不能用ship取代之。如下列船只通常称 boats:fishing boats 渔船, sailing boats帆船, rowing boats划艇, motorboats汽艇, ferryboats渡船。国家海军较大的舰船 battleship等通常称ships。3.表示“划船游玩”用go boating,不可用 go to boat。boat people 不指普通意义的“船民”,而指“乘船逃亡者”,如越南、海地等靠船出逃的难民。例如:Many boat people left their homeland only to die on the sea.许多难民乘船逃出了他们的家园却又葬身于大海之中。
- 速记技巧
谐音记忆法
谐音:抱她,抱她上小船。
词源词根法
在古代,人们最初把树干的中部掏空,制作成小船,这种小船就是boat。英语单词boat与bite(咬)、bait(诱饵)、beetle(甲虫)的词源相同,都来自印欧词根bheid(分离、撕、咬)。所以在英语中,boat专指小船、艇,是用一节树干做成的船。boat:[bəʊt]n小船,小艇
- 近义词
- 知识拓展
同根词汇
boating 划船的
boater 乘船的人
boating 划船(boat的ing形式)
- 双语例句 更多例句
Experienced seamen will advise you about whether you should sail the boat in this weather.
有经验的海员会告诉你在这种天气下是否可以航行.
《简明英汉词典》
They really pushed the boat out for their daughter's wedding, and invited 100 people.
他们的确为女儿的婚礼阔气地庆祝了一番, 邀请了100位宾客.
《简明英汉词典》
Kent must be kept out of this affair. He'll interfere and tries to have an oar in everyman's boat.
这事可不能让肯特参与. 他一定会横加干涉,乱管闲事.
《简明英汉词典》
旅途平静,我们的心情也安定, 因此我失去了一切时间的概念.但是我终于觉察到我乘的小船在慢悠悠地向岸边荡去.
——《用法词典》
- 相关词组
- miss the boatv.坐失良机;
- patrol boat巡逻艇;
- cod-fishing boat捕鳕鱼船;
- pleasure boatn.游船;
- by boat乘船;
- boat trainn.配合船班次载运船客的火车;
- cargo boat货船;
- boat peoplen.船民,乘船外逃的难民;
- fishing boat渔船;
- boat racen.赛船;竞渡;
- life boatn.救生艇;
- assault boatn.突击艇,登陆艇;
- banana boat香蕉船
- boat trainsn.配合船班次载运船客的火车( boat train的名词复数 );
- paddle boat明轮船;
- outboard boat船外马达;
- Dragon Boat Festival端午节;
- gravy boatn.调味汁瓶,酱油壶,上肉汁用的船形盘;
- dragon boat(尤指比赛用的)龙舟;
- canal boatn.运河用的平底的船;
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- might aux. 表示可能;表示许可;表示询问情况;n. 力气;力量;威力;权力;
- tune n.曲调;歌曲;v.为(乐器)调音;调试;调频道;
- flexible adj.柔韧的;灵活的;易弯曲的;
- sleep vi.睡,睡觉;睡眠状态;vt.为…提供床位;提供住宿;以睡觉打发日子;
- hilly adj.多小山/丘陵的;
- steward n.(船舶,飞机或火车上的)服务员,乘务员;(私人家中的)管家; (比赛、游行等公共活动的) 组织者;
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- faith n.信任;宗教信仰;宗教;
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