Pontoon
[pɒn'tuːn] or [pɑn'tun]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a float supporting a seaplane.
(noun.) (nautical) a floating structure (as a flat-bottomed boat) that serves as a dock or to support a bridge.
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解釋/意思:
(n.) A wooden flat-bottomed boat, a metallic cylinder, or a frame covered with canvas, India rubber, etc., forming a portable float, used in building bridges quickly for the passage of troops.
(n.) A low, flat vessel, resembling a barge, furnished with cranes, capstans, and other machinery, used in careening ships, raising weights, drawing piles, etc., chiefly in the Mediterranean; a lighter.
校對:莱斯利
解釋/意思:
n. a flat kind of boat used in forming a bridge for the passage of an army: a bridge of boats: a lighter or barge used for loading or unloading ships—also Pon′ton.—ns. Pontonier′ Pontonnier′ one who has charge of a pontoon; Pontoon′-bridge a platform or roadway supported upon pontoons.
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例句/造句/用法:
- The army was not accompanied by a pontoon train, and at that time the troops were not instructed in bridge building. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- This, if my memory serves me correctly, broke through the only pontoon bridge we had in all our march across the peninsula. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- This was speedily fortified, while a detail was laying the pontoon bridge. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- This column took their pontoon bridges with them, to enable them to cross over to the island south of the city of Wilmington. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Preparations were at once commenced for laying the pontoon bridges and crossing the river. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Blair was ordered to join him there with the pontoon train as early as possible. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Sherman reached Bridgeport about noon of the 17th and found Blair with the pontoon train already there. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- If there is a point below City Point where a pontoon bridge can be thrown, have it laid. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- As soon as enough troops were over to guard the ford, pontoons were laid and the artillery and the rest of the troops crossed. 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.
- No quarter is to be given to the English, on account of their cruelty to our braves on board the infamous pontoons. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- There were now one hundred and sixteen pontoons in the North Chickamauga River, their presence there being unknown to the enemy. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- On this day I wrote to Halleck ordering all the pontoons in Washington to be sent to City Point. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The tube, when in position, was lowered down upon its bearings on the pier by opening valves in the pontoons, which thus sunk sufficiently to ease them of their load. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- It rained all the 20th and 21St. The river rose so rapidly that it was difficult to keep the pontoons in place. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The spectators seemed spellbound, for no shouts or exclamations were heard, as all watched anxiously the silent course of the heavily freighted pontoons. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- At three o'clock on the morning of the 27th, Hazen moved into the stream with his sixty pontoons and eighteen hundred brave and well-equipped men. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
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