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portage

/pawr-tij, pohr-, or, for 2, 3, 5, 6, pawr-tahzh/US // ˈpɔr tɪdʒ, ˈpoʊr-, or, for 2, 3, 5, 6, pɔrˈtɑʒ //UK // (ˈpɔːtɪdʒ, French pɔrtaʒ) //

搬运工,搬运,搬运车,搬运工人

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of carrying; carriage.
    • : the carrying of boats, goods, etc., overland from one navigable water to another.
    • : the route over which this is done.
    • : the cost of carriage.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    por·taged, por·tag·ing.

    • : to make a portage: On this stretch of the river, we have to portage for a mile.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    por·taged, por·tag·ing.

    • : to carry over a portage; make a portage with: We portaged our canoe around the rapids.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as intote
Forms: portaged, portaging

Examples

  • For shorter outings in Vermont, paddlers should target the faster-flowing stretches beneath dams and try to end the day at a campsite before the next portage.

  • On the map, look for areas that can only be accessed via a significant portage, ideally a mile or more.

  • Otherwise, it’s really, really easy to spend 10 or 15 minutes milling around at the start and finish of every portage, and there are two problems with this.

  • Right then we switched to rock portage and charged back down the beach to get the IBS into the water.

  • It would have been less labor to have tied the beasts, put them into the boat, and hauled it across the portage.

  • It was three o'clock in the afternoon when they commenced their preparations for making this extraordinary portage.

  • Making up their bundles as usual, they commenced a struggle with the intricacies and obstacles of the portage.

  • The place of transit from one river to the other was known for years as the Portage.

  • The portage was a long mile but the girls were accustomed to hiking and took it at a brisk pace.