Steamboat
['stiːmbəʊt] or ['stimbot]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A boat or vessel propelled by steam power; -- generally used of river or coasting craft, as distinguished from ocean steamers.
校對:玛克辛
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Steamer.
錄入:丽莎
例句/造句/用法:
- No one could have been in direr poverty than he when the steamboat landed him in New York in 1869. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Before she had gone a quarter of a mile both passengers and observers on the shore were satisfied that the steamboat was a thoroughly practicable vessel. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The sailor with the black beard got out, and spoke to the steward of the Rotterdam steamboat, which was to start next morning. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- It was the first commercially successful steamboat ever made, as George Stephenson's was the first commercially successful locomotive. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- A century has not dimmed Fulton’s fame, nor set aside his claim to be the practical inventor of the steamboat. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The Earl was deeply interested, and encouraged the young American to persevere, but for the time Fulton left the steamboat to work out other problems. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The name of _Clermont_ was changed to the _North River_ the following spring, and the reconstructed steamboat continued in regular service on the Hudson for a number of years. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- John Stevens of New Jersey was also at work on a steamboat, and had in 1804 built such a boat at his shops, having a screw propeller and a flue boiler. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The building of a practicable steamboat had long been in his mind. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- William Henry, of Pennsylvania, tried a model steamboat on the Conestoga river in 1763. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Other men had worked over steamboats, but he reached the goal. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Symington and his fellow Scotchmen, Miller and Taylor, in 1788-89 also constructed working steamboats. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Other prominent Frenchmen made encouraging experiments on small steamboats--followed in 1784-86 by James Rumsey and John Fitch in America in the same line. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- At this place many stores and five steamboats fell into our hands. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- But Scottish waters, and the waters around other coasts of the British Islands, had been traversed by steamboats before this celebrated trip of the _Savannah_. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Fulton, when in Paris, had experimented with models of steamboats, and had studied the records of what had already been done in that line. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Ward & Company, at that time the largest owners of steamboats on the Great Lakes. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Bell's steamboat between Glasgow and Greenock in 1812 was followed by five others in 1814; and seven steamboats plied on the Thames in 1817. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
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