Caravan
['kærəvæn;kærə'væn] or ['kærəvæn]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a procession (of wagons or mules or camels) traveling together in single file; 'we were part of a caravan of almost a thousand camels'; 'they joined the wagon train for safety'.
(verb.) travel in a caravan.
手打:特伦斯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A company of travelers, pilgrims, or merchants, organized and equipped for a long journey, or marching or traveling together, esp. through deserts and countries infested by robbers or hostile tribes, as in Asia or Africa.
(n.) A large, covered wagon, or a train of such wagons, for conveying wild beasts, etc., for exhibition; an itinerant show, as of wild beasts.
(n.) A covered vehicle for carrying passengers or for moving furniture, etc.; -- sometimes shorted into van.
杰夫編輯
解釋/意思:
n. a company of travellers associated together for security in crossing the deserts in the East: a company of people: a large close carriage or any kind of house on wheels.—ns. Caravaneer′ the leader of a caravan; Caravan′sary Caravan′sera a kind of unfurnished inn where caravans stop.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Upon the main caravan routes the chief towns rose to a certain second-rate prosperity, and foremost among them were Medina and Mecca. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I wouldn't let any such caravan go through a country of mine. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- At nine in the morning the caravan was before the hotel door and we were at breakfast. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- But it was inconvenient for ship or caravan transit. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I call their dinner-table, the Caravan. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- It was an uncouth carriage, looking something like a caravan used at a country fair. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- To spare her the fatigues of the caravan route, it was decided to send her by sea with a suitable escort. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- We had left our accompanying caravan far behind us; and now I perceived that the storm had made me unconsciously deviate from my intended route. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- To-day the police traced them down and examined their caravan. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- The roof and chimney of Venn's caravan showed behind the tracery and tangles of the brake. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Probably he had to look after her camels or help in her trading operations; and he is said to have travelled with caravans to the Yemen and to Syria. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Even the Muscovites now trade regularly with China, by a sort of caravans which go over land through Siberia and Tartary to Pekin. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
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