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seaman

/see-muhn/US // ˈsi mən //UK // (ˈsiːmən) //

海员,水手长,水手,水员

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural sea·men.

    • : a person skilled in seamanship.
    • : a person whose trade or occupation is assisting in the handling, sailing, and navigating of a ship during a voyage, especially one below the rank of officer; sailor.
    • : U.S. Navy and Coast Guard. an enlisted person ranking below petty officer.

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Examples

  • And Tom Hanks is stunning as the titular seaman in Captain Phillips.

  • Seaman's mind-boggling dereliction of responsibility harms the state whose interests he was, and is, tasked with protecting.

  • Seaman's promotion to the Prime Minister's office, however, seems likely to go through.

  • When after innumerable complaints a tender for the job was finally issued, Seaman failed to qualify.

  • For a decade, Seaman was the face Israel presented to the foreign press corps.

  • Brief as was this interchange of politenesses, it sufficed to knit together the souls of the seaman and the small boy.

  • In the following December he returned to Manila disguised as a seaman, and stole ashore in the crowd of stevedore labourers.

  • He was a former British seaman, and he offered his services to the colonies at this time in an attempt to raise a naval force.

  • Once executed, the articles cannot be varied by a verbal agreement between master and seaman.

  • So the days flew by, and the time came when sugar—the seaman's luxury in winter—began to run short.