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trireme

/trahy-reem/US // ˈtraɪ rim //UK // (ˈtraɪriːm) //

三角形,三角洲,三层楼,三元

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Classical History.

    • : a galley with three rows or tiers of oars on each side, one above another, used chiefly as a warship.

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Examples

  • The era when trireme supremacy meant regional hegemony came to an end not long after that.

  • Of the Rhodian fleet two quinqueremes and a trireme were destroyed, but no ship was taken.

  • The arrival of this trireme was thus of very essential service to the Greeks.

  • He describes the sword as like the beak of the ship known as the trireme, which was rowed with three banks of oars.

  • It has been like a splendid and richly-dressed trireme sailing, plague-stricken, into a harbor full of ships and boats.

  • And there, in the soft embracement of the bay, a bird with folded wings asleep—the trireme!