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lifeboat

/lahyf-boht/US // ˈlaɪfˌboʊt //UK // (ˈlaɪfˌbəʊt) //

救生艇,救生船,救生舰,救生员

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a double-ended ship's boat, constructed, mounted, and provisioned so as to be readily able to rescue and maintain persons from a sinking vessel.
    • : a similarly constructed boat used by shore-based rescue services.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inabsolve
as inpardon
as inpardon

Examples

  • There was a kind of everyone-swimming-to-the-last-lifeboat, and it turned out to not be the last lifeboat.

  • Within a short while, it became clear that he was, in fact, joining the Cruz family women and children in the closest available lifeboat.

  • We’ve patched together a little lifeboat in this vast sea of students, spread over the world.

  • We’ve patched together a little lifeboat in this vast sea of students, spread out over the world.

  • So I’m riding out this storm in the lifeboat of my living group.

  • Once we were discussing Lifeboat, a Hitchcock film that takes place almost entirely in a small boat adrift at sea.

  • A rising tide lifts all boats…but a lifeboat carrying a few, surrounded by many treading water, risks capsizing.

  • But the pirates sabotage the deal and make off in a lifeboat with Phillips, along with $30,000 in cash.

  • After an incredibly suspenseful standoff, the marksmen take out the pirates in the lifeboat, saving Phillips.

  • Like when Smith and his family managed to crowd onto a lifeboat—which then failed to deploy.

  • Often, far too often, all the force of lifeboat service on that coast is insufficient to meet the demands on it.

  • The drama, as far as the Gull-Light was concerned, ended that night with the disappearance of the tug and lifeboat.

  • This is the east pier watch-house; the marine residence, if we may so express it, of the coxswain of the lifeboat and his men.

  • Without her powerful engines to tow it to windward of the wrecks the lifeboat would be much, very much, less useful than it is.

  • Slipping the cable once more, the lifeboat gallantly dashed into the thickest of the fight, and soon got within hail of the wreck.