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convoy

/verb kon-voi, kuhn-voi; noun kon-voi/US // verb ˈkɒn vɔɪ, kənˈvɔɪ; noun ˈkɒn vɔɪ //UK // (ˈkɒnvɔɪ) //

车队,护卫队,护航队,护航

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to accompany or escort, usually for protection: A destroyer convoyed the merchant ship.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of convoying.
    • : the protection provided by an escort.
    • : a ship, fleet, group of vehicles, etc., accompanied by a protecting escort.
    • : an armed force, warship, etc., that escorts, especially for protection.
    • : any group of military vehicles traveling together under the same orders.
    • : Citizens Band Radio Slang. two or more CB-equipped vehicles traveling together.

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Examples

  • If shots are transported during a blizzard, the vaccine convoy could follow 30 minutes behind a salt truck.

  • A love story set against the backdrop of the Irish War of Independence, the film opens with an Irish Republican Army ambush of a police convoy carrying two of their captured members, and was released in America as River of Unrest.

  • We’re social animals, and serving the greatest number in your social convoy guarantees your continued existence.

  • His strolling is interrupted when he receives a call from Peter Parker asking him to help supervise a prison convoy.

  • Suspects’ identities remain unclear in deadly convoy attack.

  • At the head of this five-mile convoy was Ivan Smith, a 22-year-old Rhodesian.

  • As soon as the convoy left, Jimbo came out of the double doors.

  • But one convoy alone, according to Lysenko, consisted of 32 tanks, 16 D-30 howitzers and 30 KamAZ heavy trucks.

  • The convoy included more than 40 tankers and trucks--19 of those were each towing a 122mm howitzer.

  • On Tuesday, the group witnessed a convoy of 43 unmarked green military trucks with tarpaulin covers moving towards Donetsk.

  • It was risky work to leave the valuable convoy for an instant, but Malcolm felt that he must probe this mystery.

  • You must proceed, with your convoy and escort, till you regain the high-road, then take the first quarters you can find.

  • At the same time the Napoleon, with a convoy of steamers and transports, rose well into sight on our starboard quarter.

  • Gingham merely knew that a convoy was going up; and intended to go in company, for the sake of the guard.

  • Mr Chesterfield now pushed forward with a party by the lane towards the 410 ford, the convoy and the rest of the escort following.