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seafarer

/see-fair-er/US // ˈsiˌfɛər ər //UK // (ˈsiːˌfɛərə) //

海员,航海家,航海员,航海人员

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a sailor.
    • : a traveler on the sea.

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Examples

  • During the pandemic, seafarers have become the world’s forgotten essential workers.

  • The United Nations called for the world’s governments to designate seafarers and other marine personnel as “key workers” during the pandemic.

  • One of the things that weighs on seafarers stuck at sea is the lack of control.

  • Maersk, Hanley said, has started paying its sailors bonuses to compensate them for remaining aboard ship at all times, even in ports that allow seafarers limited shore leave.

  • Though sectors as diverse as vehicle manufacture and agriculture are reliant on maritime trade, seafarers are too few — and distant — to garner much attention.

  • Who in Britain or Western Europe or America now knows a working seafarer?

  • The most common seafarer you will see, should you look, will be Asian and exhausted.

  • You could be a generalist—a poet/mollusk scientist/seafarer/surgeon.

  • From the most ancient times they have been the friends of the seafarer!

  • He found the man Rait, a big, clumsy seafarer, and questioned him.

  • The morning was growing hot, and the good seafarer in the seat beside our friend seemed to grow very uncomfortable.

  • He was the captain of Raleigh's flagship, the Destiny, an old seafarer, who in twenty years had lived a century of adventure.

  • Not only the terms of expression, but a distinct reference to a former voyage, indicated the writer to have been a seafarer.