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buoy up

/boo-ee, boi/US // ˈbu i, bɔɪ //UK // (bɔɪ, US ˈbuːɪ) //

浮标,浮起,浮力,浮动

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Nautical. a distinctively shaped and marked float, sometimes carrying a signal or signals, anchored to mark a channel, anchorage, navigational hazard, etc., or to provide a mooring place away from the shore.
    • : a life buoy.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to keep afloat or support by or as if by a life buoy; keep from sinking: The life jacket buoyed her up until help arrived.
    • : Nautical. to mark with a buoy or buoys.
    • : to sustain or encourage: Her courage was buoyed by the doctor's assurances.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to float or rise by reason of lightness.

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Examples

  • Pointing their phones at the area around the buoys, they’d see the digital sculptures appear.

  • Waterfront landowners often express concerns that oyster farms near the shoreline — and the network of buoys and docks that may come along with them — disrupt their scenic views.

  • Now, satellite-tracked buoys that simulated wayward rafts suggest that there’s little chance that the seafarers reached the isles by accident.

  • Results are sent from the buoy via satellite to researchers who confirm the sounds, and match them to visual sightings from scientists and whale-watching boats in the area.

  • Onboard a computer on the buoy out at sea, an automated detection algorithm harnessing the power of artificial intelligence identifies nearby vocalizing blue, humpback, and fin whales in near real-time.

  • They also helped buoy Chavez's political fortunes, winning him momentum before a crucial recall vote.

  • And he will buoy hopes among Democrats that Virginia is reliably purple, if not blue, in the 2016 presidential election.

  • If you could launch these things from, say, a floating buoy, you could solve a lot of problems at once.

  • They gave me a jolt of encouragement that is going to buoy me for the rest of my writing life.

  • Bailouts, government guarantees, and the Fed's easy money policies helped buoy banks.

  • The Nora lies becalmed not far from the Goodwin buoy, with her sails hanging idly on the yards.

  • The buoy having been secured, an iron hook and chain of great strength were then attached to the ring in its head.

  • “You see we require stronger tackle,” said the captain to Stanley, while the buoy was being slowly raised.

  • He therefore gave the order to have the fresh buoy, with its chain and sinker, ready to let go.

  • He had caught the life-buoy, and having managed to get it under his arms had floated about for the greater part of an hour.