Ferry
['ferɪ] or ['fɛri]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) transport by boat or aircraft.
(noun.) a boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule.
(verb.) travel by ferry.
(verb.) transport by ferry.
(verb.) transport from one place to another.
校對:利昂--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To carry or transport over a river, strait, or other narrow water, in a boat.
(v. i.) To pass over water in a boat or by a ferry.
(v. t.) A place where persons or things are carried across a river, arm of the sea, etc., in a ferryboat.
(v. t.) A vessel in which passengers and goods are conveyed over narrow waters; a ferryboat; a wherry.
(v. t.) A franchise or right to maintain a vessel for carrying passengers and freight across a river, bay, etc., charging tolls.
編輯:朱尔斯
解釋/意思:
v.t. to carry or convey over a water in a boat:—pr.p. ferr′ying; pa.p. ferr′ied.—n. a place where one is carried by boat across a water: the right of conveying passengers: the ferry-boat.—ns. Ferr′iage provision for ferrying: the fare paid for such; Ferr′y-boat; Ferr′y-man.
手打:列侬
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To wait at a ferry for a boat and see the waters swift and muddy, you will be baffled in your highest wishes and designs by unforeseen circumstances. To cross a ferry while the water is calm and clear, you will be very lucky in carrying out your plans, and fortune will crown you.
整理:丽纳
例句/造句/用法:
- By seven o'clock the whole of Smith's force was ferried over and in possession of a height commanding the ferry. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Let the heart swell into what discord it will, thus plays the rippling water on the prow of the ferry-boat ever the same tune. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- To return to the Army of the Potomac: The 2d corps commenced crossing the James River on the morning of the 14th by ferry-boats at Wilcox's Landing. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- I can easily get away from the office in time to meet the brougham at the ferry, if May will send it there. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- This was accomplished for the first time in America at the Remington plant, in making Harper’s Ferry muskets. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Passing along this deep shade, and out at that arch of light at the other end, we come upon the ferry and the cottage by the best approach, I think. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- There was, and is when I write, at the end of that low-lying street, a dilapidated little wooden building, probably an obsolete old ferry-house. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Steamers to use as ferries were also essential. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Before this I had been collecting, from St. Louis and Chicago, yawls and barges to be used as ferries when we got below. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- By seven o'clock the whole of Smith's force was ferried over and in possession of a height commanding the ferry. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- By the 6th of April McClernand had reached New Carthage with one division and its artillery, the latter ferried through the woods by these boats. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The work of ferrying over Sherman's command from the north side of the Tennessee was at once commenced, using the pontoons for the purpose. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
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