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life raft

救生筏,救生艇,生命筏,救命筏

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a raft, often inflatable, for use in emergencies, as when a ship must be abandoned or when a plane is downed at sea.

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  • In its first-response role, the drone is built to carry and release self-inflating life rafts, allowing people in the water the opportunity to climb aboard and wait for slower rescuers without having to tread water.

  • Some people have survived by climbing aboard roofs and using them as makeshift life rafts.

  • At London’s Defence and Security Equipment International exhibition, Portugal- and UK-based drone company Tekever announced September 14 that its AR5 drone can now carry and deploy self-inflating life rafts to assist in water rescue.

  • In June, for example, a helicopter out of Massachusetts grabbed three people off a life raft after their fishing boat sank near Montauk Point, New York.

  • His life as a man is built around health insurance and tax services.

  • It was also an attack on our freedom of expression and way of life.

  • I always wanted my life to be that way, and it became that way.

  • I liked it because it was like my life coming back together.

  • When the father arrived at the hospital, he was told that Andrew Dossi was in surgery, but the wounds were not life-threatening.

  • Now, it immediately occurred to Davy that he had never in his whole life had all the plums he wanted at any one time.

  • Dean Swift was indeed a misanthrope by theory, however he may have made exception to private life.

  • We shall recover again some or all of the steadfastness and dignity of the old religious life.

  • It is the dramatic impulse of childhood endeavouring to bring life into the dulness of the serious hours.

  • Woman is mistress of the art of completely embittering the life of the person on whom she depends.