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sailing

/sey-ling/US // ˈseɪ lɪŋ //UK // (ˈseɪlɪŋ) //

帆船,航行,出海,帆船运动

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the activity of a person or thing that sails.
    • : the departure of a ship from port: The cruise line offers sailings every other day.
    • : Navigation. any of various methods for determining courses and distances by means of charts or with reference to longitudes and latitudes, rhumb lines, great circles, etc.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbtravel through water, air; glide
Forms: sailings

Examples

  • Cruise ships kept sailing after coronavirus was detected helped carry the virus around the globeCindi fell ill as soon as they arrived home.

  • Even among Democrats, negotiations over what should and shouldn’t be done on the economy aren’t going to be smooth sailing.

  • A thing that’s important to note up front is that mobile wasn’t one of those industries where everything was smooth sailing before everything got upended by a pandemic.

  • Having spent so much time in Africa, they know it won’t all be smooth sailing.

  • After that comes clear sailing, or hiking, or biking, throughout the weekend.

  • But instead he pursued a life of science, sailing all over the world to study animal species and their environments.

  • They have grace, ambition, and sure make sailing a whole lot more interesting.

  • Below lies the turquoise waters of the caldera, flecked with the white triangles of sailing boats.

  • The book begins with Jack sailing on a British army supply ship heading for Africa during World War II.

  • You write in the books that ship technology—boats sailing the ocean—was what got people to care about science.

  • This was very agreeable; but he was, nevertheless, greatly relieved when a boat came in sight sailing toward him.

  • I've been sailing one way for ever so long, because I don't know how to turn around; but there's a landing-place just ahead.

  • I have never seen Newport, and passed exactly a week in New York before sailing.

  • American vessels made occasional trips outside the Bay, and brought in captive sailing-vessels.

  • All the small steamers and sailing-craft in the river moved up as near as possible to the Puente de España.