喜樂美語

You can picture a boat as a small craft floating on the water, carrying people or things across it. That simple image — a hull on the water taking you from one side to the other — is the whole word; even the figurative use just puts everyone into one shared little vessel.

可以想成：boat 就是浮在水上、載著人或東西過水的一艘小船。這個簡單的畫面——一個船身浮在水上、把你從這一邊送到那一邊——就是整個字的核心；連比喻用法也只是把大家放進同一艘小船裡。

Two branches

浮在水上載人載物的船

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small watercraft · noun · A1

A small vehicle that travels on water and carries people or things.

船

同坐一條船的比喻

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be in the same boat · noun · A1

Used in the phrase 'in the same boat' to mean having the same difficult situation as someone else.

同舟（處境相同）

同家族的字

複數 boats

原始詞典資料21 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

boatnoun/bəʊ̯t/

  • 1

    Vessel for travelling by water.

    • We can't get everything in the boat. We'll leave this stuff behind.
    • Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
  • 2

    Vessel for travelling by water.

  • 3

    Vessel for travelling by water.

  • 4

    A shallow jug used to serve sauces or other liquid foods.

    • a stone boat;   a gravy boat
  • 5

    CatholicismChristianityRoman-CatholicismA vessel used to store the incense to be burned during a service; an incense boat.

    • And then when all were vested he had stood holding out the boat to the rector and the rector had put a spoonful of incense in it and it had hissed on the red coals.
  • 6

    slangcard-gamespokerA full house.

  • 7

    informalA car, especially a large or heavy one.

    • Near-synonyms: land yacht, sled
    • He claimed to be broke but he always drove that ridiculous boat.
  • 8

    chemistrynatural-sciencesorganic-chemistryOne of two possible conformations of cyclohexane rings (the other being chair), shaped roughly like a boat.

另外 3 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    slangThe face (compare boat race).

  • 10

    informalgovernmentpoliticsThe refugee boats arriving in Australian waters, and by extension, refugees generally.

  • 11

    cellular-automatacomputingengineeringIn Conway’s Game of Life, a particular still life consisting of a dead cell surrounded by five living cells.

    • It creates 4 blocks, a boat, and a glider every 768 generations.
    • The program is represented as a string of boats (1s) and blocks (0s).

boatverb/bəʊ̯t/

  • 1

    To travel by boat.

  • 2

    To transport in a boat.

    • to boat goods
  • 3

    obsoleteslangTo transport (deport to a penal colony).

    • Troy was 'boated' for seven years after being found guilty of burglary and robbery.
  • 4

    To place in a boat.

    • to boat oars

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

  • best of all time
  • brightest of all time

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