Buoy
[bɒɪ] or ['bʊi]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) bright-colored; a float attached by rope to the seabed to mark channels in a harbor or underwater hazards.
(verb.) mark with a buoy.
(verb.) keep afloat; 'The life vest buoyed him up'.
(verb.) float on the surface of water.
伊妮德編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water, as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc.
(v. t.) To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; -- with up.
(v. t.) To support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into ruin or despondency.
(v. t.) To fix buoys to; to mark by a buoy or by buoys; as, to buoy an anchor; to buoy or buoy off a channel.
(v. i.) To float; to rise like a buoy.
贝茜手打
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Float (to indicate shoals, anchoring places, &c.).
吉恩編輯
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Float, support, sustain, elevate, elate, assure, animate, cheer, inspire
ANT:Sink, drown, depress, swamp, overcome, deject, crush, fail, betray
海伦娜編輯
解釋/意思:
n. a floating cask or light piece of wood fastened by a rope or chain to indicate shoals the position of a ship's anchor &c.—v.t. to fix buoys or marks: to keep afloat bear up or sustain: to raise the spirits.—ns. Buoy′age a series of buoys or floating beacons to mark the course for vessels: the providing of buoys; Buoy′ancy capacity for floating lightly on water or in the air: specific lightness: (fig.) lightness of spirit cheerfulness.—adj. Buoy′ant light: cheerful.—n. Buoy′antness.
整理:洛厄尔
例句/造句/用法:
- Then you have some secret hope to buoy you up and please you with whispers of the future? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- A cry for the life-buoy passed from mouth to mouth. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The explosion took place and the sloop was torn into atoms, in fact, nothing was left but the buye [buoy] and cable. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The emigrants embarked by hundreds, and unfurling their sails with rude hands, made strange havoc of buoy and cordage. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- When the gas holder is full it is buoyed up by the lighter gas, and occupies an elevated position, and as its supply is used up, the gas holder settles down into the water. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Buoyed up by water or mud, they may have got along. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I was tossed into the sea near the shore, and, buoyed up by my life-belt, I managed to keep myself afloat till the waves landed me on the beach. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- These qualities render it peculiarly serviceable for the stopping of vessels of different kinds, for floats, buoys, swimming-belts or jackets, artificial limbs, etc. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- It is used for lighting railway cars, buoys, and lightships. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- These were the prototypes of the lighted buoys which have since become familiar, as in the channel off Sandy Hook. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- He loved his own vigorous, thrusting motion, and the violent impulse of the very cold water against his limbs, buoying him up. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
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