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steamboat

/steem-boht/US // ˈstimˌboʊt //UK // (ˈstiːmˌbəʊt) //

火轮船,蒸汽船,火船,汽船

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a steam-driven vessel, especially a small one or one used on inland waters.

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Examples

  • Meanwhile, almost exactly 30 years after the trial, the judge left his home to board a steamboat and was never heard from again.

  • It is the omphalos, this city that straddles two steamboat rivers at the continental crossroads.

  • Then bed down in the seaside town of Mystic, Connecticut, with views of the wharf from your private room at the Steamboat Inn.

  • Later, scores of black men roll giant bushels of cotton onto a steamboat.

  • The ski club—and Howelsen Hill—are the reasons Steamboat has produced so many great athletes.

  • The steamboat of 1809 and the steam locomotive of 1830 were the direct result of what had gone before.

  • I would not just then have traded off that steamboat for several square miles of snow-capped sublimity.

  • Here the “c” is hard and represents 7, and as the steamboat could easily outrun the “scow,” the phrase is easily remembered.

  • If you are obliged to pass the night upon a steamboat secure, if possible, a stateroom.

  • It finally plunged sharply down to a steamboat ferry, over which we crossed the Dart and landed directly in the town.