Floating
['fləʊtɪŋ] or ['flotɪŋ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the act of someone who floats on the water.
(adj.) borne up by or suspended in a liquid; 'the ship is still floating'; 'floating logs'; 'floating seaweed' .
(adj.) inclined to move or be moved about; 'a floating crap game' .
(adj.) not definitely committed to a party or policy; 'floating voters' .
(adj.) (of a part of the body) not firmly connected; movable or out of normal position; 'floating ribs are not connected with the sternum'; 'a floating kidney' .
整理:特蕾西--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Float
(a.) Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air.
(a.) Free or lose from the usual attachment; as, the floating ribs in man and some other animals.
(a.) Not funded; not fixed, invested, or determined; as, floating capital; a floating debt.
(n.) Floating threads. See Floating threads, above.
(n.) The second coat of three-coat plastering.
贾尔斯錄入
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of floating, denotes that you will victoriously overcome obstacles which are seemingly overwhelming you. If the water is muddy your victories will not be gratifying.
哈洛錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- Already one or two kept constantly floating down, amber and golden in the low slanting sun-rays. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- These discoveries, added to the long observed fact of coal oil floating on streams in Pennsylvania and elsewhere, led to the search for its natural source. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Floating in deep blue space, it watched her unclouded. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The function of the floating weight is to automatically keep the stylus in close engagement with the record, thus insuring accuracy of reproduction. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Artificial floating islands have been formed by placing lake mud on rafts of wicker-work covered with reeds. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- He sees some object that's in his way of business, floating. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- But it was like a bubble floating in the darkness. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The lamp placed against the post by Clym still shone across the water, and the reddleman observed something floating motionless. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Doctor Manette received such patients here as his old reputation, and its revival in the floating whispers of his story, brought him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- On his passage he observed the singular effect produced by the agitation of a vessel containing oil floating on water. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- What seems plainer than that the long toes, not furnished with membrane, of the Grallatores, are formed for walking over swamps and floating plants. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- What Causes Floating Islands? 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- You remember the night when I first looked in here, and found you floating your powerful mind in tea? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- To him all particulars appear to be floating about in a world of sense; they have a taint of error or even of evil. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
整理:普雷斯利