flotilla 的定义
- a group of small naval vessels, especially a naval unit containing two or more squadrons.
- a group moving together: The governor was followed by a whole flotilla of reporters.
flotilla 近义词
small fleet
更多flotilla例句
- We can realistically expect that during this century, the entire solar system—planets, moons, and asteroids—will be explored by flotillas of robotic craft.
- Whenever I had a free hour or two, I would drive to the woods, hike in a few feet and pull down invasive vines as if I were lowering the sails on a flotilla of ghost ships.
- During very popular seasons, flotillas of boats with all manner of snorkelers and scuba divers hit the water seeking “bugs.”
- It’s done in summer from flotillas of small boats that prowl in water from knee-high to 8 feet deep.
- The flotilla would also contain one larger balloon hoisting a heavier instrument known as a mass spectrometer—a machine capable of identifying complex biological molecules like proteins.
- They were perched atop our five-boat flotilla and I cried like a baby.
- The pendant light is a flotilla of hot air balloons hand blown in glass.
- But I was oddly pleased when I heard that 500 people were treated for hypothermia after the flotilla.
- The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh will travel in the Royal Barge which will form the centrepiece of the flotilla.
- The two countries are facing a major diplomatic rupture over a report on the Gaza flotilla raid, and neither side is backing down.
- Here the river turned abruptly northwest, and in the bay formed by its curve lay a flotilla of log rafts.
- I must confess, however, that the French appeared to me equally mad, in expecting any thing from their flotilla.
- I demanded of this veteran, pointing to the flotilla, when the Emperor intended to invade England?
- Amidst such scenery the expeditionary flotilla began its voyage at eleven o'clock.
- With a gentle breeze off shore the flotilla started in nearly the order assigned to it.