Definition of portage in English:

portage

noun ˈpɔːtɪdʒpɔːˈtɑːʒ

mass noun

1The carrying of a boat or its cargo between two navigable waters.
（两条水路间船只或货物的）陆上运输
the return journey was made much simpler by portage
回程按陆上运输方式进行，因而要简单得多。
Example sentencesExamples
- It is highly likely that the Vikings took the short portage at Tarbet, and found a retreat in Loch Morar.
- The next day Lewis walked ahead with three men to find the Shoshones and horses for portage.
- The long-sought overland portage to the Columbia River that President Thomas Jefferson envisioned could not be too far distant.
- The grueling eighteen-mile portage around the natural wonder, however, was a month-long ordeal with many days spent in preparation and eleven days in transit.
- The site benefited from centuries of Indian custom in that it lay athwart an old Indian portage between Lakes Pontchartrain and Borgne and the river, the trail that now terminated as Rue de l' Hôpital.
- It was short portage railway around a cataract in the St. Lawrence River, running only 14 miles between Lapraire on the St.Lawrence River and St.John's on the Richelieu River.
- Some families would stay there only in the fall for the caribou harvest and then would move on to trap in other areas of the barren lands or portage back to Tue Nedhe.
- The native villages are built at the heads of the rapids, so that they can spot intruders and attack them during portage.
- The expedition's most difficult portage occurred in early June at a place called Grand Portage.
- First, today as in the past, canoe travel in the swampy coastal areas of Cameroon is the most efficient method of portage - not only for goods but also for ideas.
- At the end of our paddle we disembarked at a boat launch used by fisherman, and when we pulled ourselves out we immediately were chilled, so we changed into dry clothes for the 11-mile portage across to the saltwater.
- You boys are not strong enough to carry the canoe over the portage.
- In spite of the hard portage today, we are happy campers.
- Yet, as I said to the four people waiting for us to clear one particularly messy portage, as I was standing there knee-deep in the muck: I said: This is what we come for, isn't it?
- I won't bore you with details of our portage of the canoe back to the hire centre, excuses to the owners for our bedraggled state, or the hours spent warming up in the shower afterwards, but I will bore you with a little observation.
- The upside here is that the 300 is the right weight for your youngsters, and it's also pleasingly light for a long back-country hike or lengthy canoe portage.
- Desirous of keeping the militarily and economically strategic portage in their employ, the British decided that Alexis Maisonville and his brother Francis would be better trusted with it than the Indians.
- As we neared that last portage, from Quetico Lake back into Beaverhouse, two eagles stood silent vigil in a dead tree along our way.
- At each portage, then, they're carrying maybe 250 pounds, and before they reach the end of the race they will have done maybe 25 such portages.
- We believe there will be a 400 metre portage involved so it is important to get the experience under our belt.
1. 1.1count noun A place at which portage is necessary.
  陆上运输点
  a portage over the weir
  拦河坝上方的陆上运输点。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Evidence of this history is visible in the graveyards, trail markers, arrowheads, and campsites dotted along the paths and portages.
  It got there, through the lakes and over the portages, in the canoes of the Voyageurs.
  Everyone's legs were masses of cuts and scrapes from numerous portages and wading through rocks.
  At the start of the 19th century, Quetico was the busiest region of interior North America and in the peace of morning, if one pauses to listen, the ghosts of the old fur traders can still be heard stalking the portages.
  At one of the portages, Moses decided that he and Murie would run the rapids rather than carry the last canoe to calmer water.
  When not in the canoe or assisting at the portages, Murie gathered bird specimens with shotgun or rifle, took photographs with a durable camera, and, when time allowed, sketched his subjects.
  At each portage, then, they're carrying maybe 250 pounds, and before they reach the end of the race they will have done maybe 25 such portages.
  The road is built over approximately 200 kilometres of lakes and portages in order to allow for transportation of fuel, housing materials and other goods required by the community.
  It often took hours for the guides to find the streams and portages that joined the ‘exceedingly complicated’ system of lakes.
  They also hoped to find a short portage between the Marias and Saskatchewan Rivers that would allow the diversion of the western Canadian fur trade to American traders.
  Follow the well-marked, modest portages from Birch Lake to Carp Lake, and into Emerald.
  Cruise silently through a series of idyllic lakes with connecting passages and portages.
  Aragorn thinks there might be a portage on the shore that will make passing the rapids easier.
  With bodily force and strategic cajoling - namely, the false promise of a rest just a few portages away - I managed to coax her back into the boat.
2. 1.2archaic The action of carrying or transporting something.
  〈古〉搬运；运输
  the cloister required an enormous labour of portage from the plain
  Synonyms
  transportation, transport, carriage, carrying, transfer, transference, movement, delivery

verb ˈpɔːtɪdʒpɔːˈtɑːʒ

[with object]

1Carry (a boat or its cargo) between navigable waters.
（两条水路间船只或货物的）陆上运输
we portaged everything here
我们把这里的一切都搬运走了。
Example sentencesExamples
- Throughout the evening and most of the next morning, we portage an unrunnable section of the river, then load up and paddle on in a cold, steady rain.
- So whether you're scampering up side canyons looking for hidden waterfalls, wading coastal waters in search of quahogs, or portaging an unrunnable section of river, the water shoes below will perform swimmingly.
- We landed upstream and portaged the heavy Fiberglass canoes past the group while they snorted, perhaps in amusement.
- Many Indian and Arab traders (and after them the Europeans) chose to land their products at Mergui and use barges to travel upriver to Tenasserim and then have their good portaged the rest of the way.
- Ethel seems quite happy portaging the canoe and testing the river's depths while her husband plays ‘backseat driver.’
- The paddlers - who plan to reach the coast by May - have been forced to portage several rapids and rappel down the side of Tis Isat Falls.
- Moving the boats and equipment on water was always the preferred option to portaging or carrying everything including boats overland between stretches or bodies of navigable water.
- The first obstacle was the infamous Northam Weir transpiring 500m from the start, forcing participants to carry or portage their craft.
- Without helicopter rescue, crews would have had to be self-reliant (as in the ‘old days’) through a combination of paddling and portaging boats through water and over the ice to reach land.
- Anyone who's had to portage a kayak or put one on a roof rack will appreciate the lightweight boat.
- We portage the first four-foot drop, then decide to take our chances with the rest of the Class III rapids.
- It's obvious that the owners of the canoe are portaging, so we park nearby and walk along the shore to see if the rapid warrants our carrying as well.
- This is a moderate river, and we're going to portage the big rapids.
- Twenty-nine days later the Corps had traveled only 20 miles; portaging the falls had taken longer than expected.
- As Clinton shouted instructions, they attempted to cross the swift 40-foot channel to the far bank, where portaging looked easier.
1. 1.1no object, with adverbial (of a boat) be carried between or across unnavigable waters.
  （两条水路间船只或货物的）陆上运输
  the cataracts meant that boats had to portage on to the Lualaba
  这些大瀑布意味着船只必须从陆路搬运到卢瓦拉巴河。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I must have one pair of knee-high wool-lined boots for portaging over the pack ice in Inglefield Fjord and a full-body survival suit to insulate against the 31-degree-Fahrenheit water.
  So, if portaging through downtown Calgary doesn't suit you, try one or a combination of these alternatives.
  Plan on dragging and portaging as much as paddling.
  Nonetheless, we eventually reached a tiny logjam, portaged up and over, and shoved off onto another expanse of flat brown water and giant stumps.
  So they ditched their treasure under a big rock and portaged to the Genesee up to Lake Ontario.
  Though not an avid canoeist, she managed to convince a friend to portage through Riverdale Park (south of Broadview station) one spring for a jaunt down the infamous stream.
  Jack London and his partners were among only hundreds who made it through that October of 1897, and at the last, they beat the ice by running Miles Canyon and the White Horse Rapids instead of portaging.
  It only weighs 65 pounds, too, so that means that I can portage across the river with it on my back and continue on my very slow way on the other side of said river.
  Their 33-mile adventure took nine days of scrambling, portaging, and even swimming.
  Attacking a thundering two-mile alley of cliffed-out whitewater they dubbed the Northeast Strait-away, the kayakers crossed from bank to bank, portaging when necessary and seal-launching into the current from huge boulders.
  The salmon fishing, black bear, moose, and caribou sightings, and frequent stops for scouting and portaging easily turn running the Main into a weeklong wilderness adventure.
  The best ones have a scuff-proof cover, fold up for portaging, and join two types of foam padding.
  All told, we'd traversed some forty-eight miles, paddling and portaging.
  On our first excursion to the lakes, while paddling and portaging between the two, we noticed that the water level of Lago Sarapaio, judging by vegetation and water marks, appeared to have been static over the previous few weeks.
  The raft guides assessed the rapids were too dangerous to shoot and the team would have to portage again.
  These were light, strong, fast, seaworthy, and could be portaged round falls or towed up rapids.
  He yelled down that portaging didn't look good on his side, but Clinton pushed for us to cross anyway.
  We'll put canoes into the northwestern corner of the Quetico park, and will paddle and portage in a lazy loop that will bring us back to the cars eventually.
  When we reached the next rapids, a five-foot ledge plunging into standing waves, I was ready to portage again.
  At another place they were forced to portage to avoid a series of logs which had fallen into the river.

Origin

Late Middle English: from French, from porter 'carry'. The sense relating to carrying between navigable waters dates from the late 17th century.

Rhymes

shortage

portage¹

nounˈpôrdijˈpɔrdɪdʒ

1The carrying of a boat or its cargo between two navigable waters.
（两条水路间船只或货物的）陆上运输
the return journey was made much simpler by portage
回程按陆上运输方式进行，因而要简单得多。
Example sentencesExamples
- The upside here is that the 300 is the right weight for your youngsters, and it's also pleasingly light for a long back-country hike or lengthy canoe portage.
- Yet, as I said to the four people waiting for us to clear one particularly messy portage, as I was standing there knee-deep in the muck: I said: This is what we come for, isn't it?
- At the end of our paddle we disembarked at a boat launch used by fisherman, and when we pulled ourselves out we immediately were chilled, so we changed into dry clothes for the 11-mile portage across to the saltwater.
- Desirous of keeping the militarily and economically strategic portage in their employ, the British decided that Alexis Maisonville and his brother Francis would be better trusted with it than the Indians.
- In spite of the hard portage today, we are happy campers.
- At each portage, then, they're carrying maybe 250 pounds, and before they reach the end of the race they will have done maybe 25 such portages.
- I won't bore you with details of our portage of the canoe back to the hire centre, excuses to the owners for our bedraggled state, or the hours spent warming up in the shower afterwards, but I will bore you with a little observation.
- The expedition's most difficult portage occurred in early June at a place called Grand Portage.
- The next day Lewis walked ahead with three men to find the Shoshones and horses for portage.
- First, today as in the past, canoe travel in the swampy coastal areas of Cameroon is the most efficient method of portage - not only for goods but also for ideas.
- It was short portage railway around a cataract in the St. Lawrence River, running only 14 miles between Lapraire on the St.Lawrence River and St.John's on the Richelieu River.
- The native villages are built at the heads of the rapids, so that they can spot intruders and attack them during portage.
- You boys are not strong enough to carry the canoe over the portage.
- The site benefited from centuries of Indian custom in that it lay athwart an old Indian portage between Lakes Pontchartrain and Borgne and the river, the trail that now terminated as Rue de l' Hôpital.
- The grueling eighteen-mile portage around the natural wonder, however, was a month-long ordeal with many days spent in preparation and eleven days in transit.
- We believe there will be a 400 metre portage involved so it is important to get the experience under our belt.
- As we neared that last portage, from Quetico Lake back into Beaverhouse, two eagles stood silent vigil in a dead tree along our way.
- Some families would stay there only in the fall for the caribou harvest and then would move on to trap in other areas of the barren lands or portage back to Tue Nedhe.
- The long-sought overland portage to the Columbia River that President Thomas Jefferson envisioned could not be too far distant.
- It is highly likely that the Vikings took the short portage at Tarbet, and found a retreat in Loch Morar.
1. 1.1 A place where carrying a boat is necessary.
  陆上运输点
  a portage over the dam
  拦河坝上方的陆上运输点。
  Example sentencesExamples
  When not in the canoe or assisting at the portages, Murie gathered bird specimens with shotgun or rifle, took photographs with a durable camera, and, when time allowed, sketched his subjects.
  Evidence of this history is visible in the graveyards, trail markers, arrowheads, and campsites dotted along the paths and portages.
  The road is built over approximately 200 kilometres of lakes and portages in order to allow for transportation of fuel, housing materials and other goods required by the community.
  At each portage, then, they're carrying maybe 250 pounds, and before they reach the end of the race they will have done maybe 25 such portages.
  Cruise silently through a series of idyllic lakes with connecting passages and portages.
  They also hoped to find a short portage between the Marias and Saskatchewan Rivers that would allow the diversion of the western Canadian fur trade to American traders.
  It often took hours for the guides to find the streams and portages that joined the ‘exceedingly complicated’ system of lakes.
  With bodily force and strategic cajoling - namely, the false promise of a rest just a few portages away - I managed to coax her back into the boat.
  At one of the portages, Moses decided that he and Murie would run the rapids rather than carry the last canoe to calmer water.
  Aragorn thinks there might be a portage on the shore that will make passing the rapids easier.
  Follow the well-marked, modest portages from Birch Lake to Carp Lake, and into Emerald.
  At the start of the 19th century, Quetico was the busiest region of interior North America and in the peace of morning, if one pauses to listen, the ghosts of the old fur traders can still be heard stalking the portages.
  It got there, through the lakes and over the portages, in the canoes of the Voyageurs.
  Everyone's legs were masses of cuts and scrapes from numerous portages and wading through rocks.
2. 1.2archaic The action of carrying or transporting something.
  〈古〉搬运；运输
  Synonyms
  transportation, transport, carriage, carrying, transfer, transference, movement, delivery

verbˈpôrdijˈpɔrdɪdʒ

[with object]

1Carry (a boat or its cargo) between navigable waters.
（两条水路间船只或货物的）陆上运输
they are incapable of portaging a canoe
no object they would only run the rapid if they couldn't portage
Example sentencesExamples
- The paddlers - who plan to reach the coast by May - have been forced to portage several rapids and rappel down the side of Tis Isat Falls.
- This is a moderate river, and we're going to portage the big rapids.
- We portage the first four-foot drop, then decide to take our chances with the rest of the Class III rapids.
- Moving the boats and equipment on water was always the preferred option to portaging or carrying everything including boats overland between stretches or bodies of navigable water.
- Many Indian and Arab traders (and after them the Europeans) chose to land their products at Mergui and use barges to travel upriver to Tenasserim and then have their good portaged the rest of the way.
- Ethel seems quite happy portaging the canoe and testing the river's depths while her husband plays ‘backseat driver.’
- The first obstacle was the infamous Northam Weir transpiring 500m from the start, forcing participants to carry or portage their craft.
- Without helicopter rescue, crews would have had to be self-reliant (as in the ‘old days’) through a combination of paddling and portaging boats through water and over the ice to reach land.
- So whether you're scampering up side canyons looking for hidden waterfalls, wading coastal waters in search of quahogs, or portaging an unrunnable section of river, the water shoes below will perform swimmingly.
- Anyone who's had to portage a kayak or put one on a roof rack will appreciate the lightweight boat.
- Throughout the evening and most of the next morning, we portage an unrunnable section of the river, then load up and paddle on in a cold, steady rain.
- Twenty-nine days later the Corps had traveled only 20 miles; portaging the falls had taken longer than expected.
- We landed upstream and portaged the heavy Fiberglass canoes past the group while they snorted, perhaps in amusement.
- As Clinton shouted instructions, they attempted to cross the swift 40-foot channel to the far bank, where portaging looked easier.
- It's obvious that the owners of the canoe are portaging, so we park nearby and walk along the shore to see if the rapid warrants our carrying as well.
1. 1.1no object, with adverbial (of a boat) be carried between navigable waters.
  （两条水路间船只或货物的）陆上运输
  the cataracts meant that boats had to portage on to the Lualaba
  这些大瀑布意味着船只必须从陆路搬运到卢瓦拉巴河。
  Example sentencesExamples
  So they ditched their treasure under a big rock and portaged to the Genesee up to Lake Ontario.
  Attacking a thundering two-mile alley of cliffed-out whitewater they dubbed the Northeast Strait-away, the kayakers crossed from bank to bank, portaging when necessary and seal-launching into the current from huge boulders.
  The best ones have a scuff-proof cover, fold up for portaging, and join two types of foam padding.
  The salmon fishing, black bear, moose, and caribou sightings, and frequent stops for scouting and portaging easily turn running the Main into a weeklong wilderness adventure.
  We'll put canoes into the northwestern corner of the Quetico park, and will paddle and portage in a lazy loop that will bring us back to the cars eventually.
  Though not an avid canoeist, she managed to convince a friend to portage through Riverdale Park (south of Broadview station) one spring for a jaunt down the infamous stream.
  I must have one pair of knee-high wool-lined boots for portaging over the pack ice in Inglefield Fjord and a full-body survival suit to insulate against the 31-degree-Fahrenheit water.
  Jack London and his partners were among only hundreds who made it through that October of 1897, and at the last, they beat the ice by running Miles Canyon and the White Horse Rapids instead of portaging.
  Plan on dragging and portaging as much as paddling.
  When we reached the next rapids, a five-foot ledge plunging into standing waves, I was ready to portage again.
  He yelled down that portaging didn't look good on his side, but Clinton pushed for us to cross anyway.
  It only weighs 65 pounds, too, so that means that I can portage across the river with it on my back and continue on my very slow way on the other side of said river.
  Nonetheless, we eventually reached a tiny logjam, portaged up and over, and shoved off onto another expanse of flat brown water and giant stumps.
  So, if portaging through downtown Calgary doesn't suit you, try one or a combination of these alternatives.
  On our first excursion to the lakes, while paddling and portaging between the two, we noticed that the water level of Lago Sarapaio, judging by vegetation and water marks, appeared to have been static over the previous few weeks.
  Their 33-mile adventure took nine days of scrambling, portaging, and even swimming.
  These were light, strong, fast, seaworthy, and could be portaged round falls or towed up rapids.
  The raft guides assessed the rapids were too dangerous to shoot and the team would have to portage again.
  At another place they were forced to portage to avoid a series of logs which had fallen into the river.
  All told, we'd traversed some forty-eight miles, paddling and portaging.

Origin

Late Middle English: from French, from porter ‘carry’. The sense relating to carrying between navigable waters dates from the late 17th century.

Portage²

proper nounˈpôrdəj

1A port city in northwestern Indiana, on Lake Erie, east of Gary; population 36,976 (est. 2008).
2A city in southwestern Michigan, south of Kalamazoo; population 46,133 (est. 2008).

词汇	portage
释义	Definition of portage in English: portage noun ˈpɔːtɪdʒpɔːˈtɑːʒ mass noun 1The carrying of a boat or its cargo between two navigable waters. （两条水路间船只或货物的）陆上运输 the return journey was made much simpler by portage 回程按陆上运输方式进行，因而要简单得多。 Example sentencesExamples It is highly likely that the Vikings took the short portage at Tarbet, and found a retreat in Loch Morar. The next day Lewis walked ahead with three men to find the Shoshones and horses for portage. The long-sought overland portage to the Columbia River that President Thomas Jefferson envisioned could not be too far distant. The grueling eighteen-mile portage around the natural wonder, however, was a month-long ordeal with many days spent in preparation and eleven days in transit. The site benefited from centuries of Indian custom in that it lay athwart an old Indian portage between Lakes Pontchartrain and Borgne and the river, the trail that now terminated as Rue de l' Hôpital. It was short portage railway around a cataract in the St. Lawrence River, running only 14 miles between Lapraire on the St.Lawrence River and St.John's on the Richelieu River. Some families would stay there only in the fall for the caribou harvest and then would move on to trap in other areas of the barren lands or portage back to Tue Nedhe. The native villages are built at the heads of the rapids, so that they can spot intruders and attack them during portage. The expedition's most difficult portage occurred in early June at a place called Grand Portage. First, today as in the past, canoe travel in the swampy coastal areas of Cameroon is the most efficient method of portage - not only for goods but also for ideas. At the end of our paddle we disembarked at a boat launch used by fisherman, and when we pulled ourselves out we immediately were chilled, so we changed into dry clothes for the 11-mile portage across to the saltwater. You boys are not strong enough to carry the canoe over the portage. In spite of the hard portage today, we are happy campers. Yet, as I said to the four people waiting for us to clear one particularly messy portage, as I was standing there knee-deep in the muck: I said: This is what we come for, isn't it? I won't bore you with details of our portage of the canoe back to the hire centre, excuses to the owners for our bedraggled state, or the hours spent warming up in the shower afterwards, but I will bore you with a little observation. The upside here is that the 300 is the right weight for your youngsters, and it's also pleasingly light for a long back-country hike or lengthy canoe portage. Desirous of keeping the militarily and economically strategic portage in their employ, the British decided that Alexis Maisonville and his brother Francis would be better trusted with it than the Indians. As we neared that last portage, from Quetico Lake back into Beaverhouse, two eagles stood silent vigil in a dead tree along our way. At each portage, then, they're carrying maybe 250 pounds, and before they reach the end of the race they will have done maybe 25 such portages. We believe there will be a 400 metre portage involved so it is important to get the experience under our belt. 1.1count noun A place at which portage is necessary. 陆上运输点 a portage over the weir 拦河坝上方的陆上运输点。 Example sentencesExamples Evidence of this history is visible in the graveyards, trail markers, arrowheads, and campsites dotted along the paths and portages. It got there, through the lakes and over the portages, in the canoes of the Voyageurs. Everyone's legs were masses of cuts and scrapes from numerous portages and wading through rocks. At the start of the 19th century, Quetico was the busiest region of interior North America and in the peace of morning, if one pauses to listen, the ghosts of the old fur traders can still be heard stalking the portages. At one of the portages, Moses decided that he and Murie would run the rapids rather than carry the last canoe to calmer water. When not in the canoe or assisting at the portages, Murie gathered bird specimens with shotgun or rifle, took photographs with a durable camera, and, when time allowed, sketched his subjects. At each portage, then, they're carrying maybe 250 pounds, and before they reach the end of the race they will have done maybe 25 such portages. The road is built over approximately 200 kilometres of lakes and portages in order to allow for transportation of fuel, housing materials and other goods required by the community. It often took hours for the guides to find the streams and portages that joined the ‘exceedingly complicated’ system of lakes. They also hoped to find a short portage between the Marias and Saskatchewan Rivers that would allow the diversion of the western Canadian fur trade to American traders. Follow the well-marked, modest portages from Birch Lake to Carp Lake, and into Emerald. Cruise silently through a series of idyllic lakes with connecting passages and portages. Aragorn thinks there might be a portage on the shore that will make passing the rapids easier. With bodily force and strategic cajoling - namely, the false promise of a rest just a few portages away - I managed to coax her back into the boat. 1.2archaic The action of carrying or transporting something. 〈古〉搬运；运输 the cloister required an enormous labour of portage from the plain Synonyms transportation, transport, carriage, carrying, transfer, transference, movement, delivery verb ˈpɔːtɪdʒpɔːˈtɑːʒ [with object] 1Carry (a boat or its cargo) between navigable waters. （两条水路间船只或货物的）陆上运输 we portaged everything here 我们把这里的一切都搬运走了。 Example sentencesExamples Throughout the evening and most of the next morning, we portage an unrunnable section of the river, then load up and paddle on in a cold, steady rain. So whether you're scampering up side canyons looking for hidden waterfalls, wading coastal waters in search of quahogs, or portaging an unrunnable section of river, the water shoes below will perform swimmingly. We landed upstream and portaged the heavy Fiberglass canoes past the group while they snorted, perhaps in amusement. Many Indian and Arab traders (and after them the Europeans) chose to land their products at Mergui and use barges to travel upriver to Tenasserim and then have their good portaged the rest of the way. Ethel seems quite happy portaging the canoe and testing the river's depths while her husband plays ‘backseat driver.’ The paddlers - who plan to reach the coast by May - have been forced to portage several rapids and rappel down the side of Tis Isat Falls. Moving the boats and equipment on water was always the preferred option to portaging or carrying everything including boats overland between stretches or bodies of navigable water. The first obstacle was the infamous Northam Weir transpiring 500m from the start, forcing participants to carry or portage their craft. Without helicopter rescue, crews would have had to be self-reliant (as in the ‘old days’) through a combination of paddling and portaging boats through water and over the ice to reach land. Anyone who's had to portage a kayak or put one on a roof rack will appreciate the lightweight boat. We portage the first four-foot drop, then decide to take our chances with the rest of the Class III rapids. It's obvious that the owners of the canoe are portaging, so we park nearby and walk along the shore to see if the rapid warrants our carrying as well. This is a moderate river, and we're going to portage the big rapids. Twenty-nine days later the Corps had traveled only 20 miles; portaging the falls had taken longer than expected. As Clinton shouted instructions, they attempted to cross the swift 40-foot channel to the far bank, where portaging looked easier. 1.1no object, with adverbial (of a boat) be carried between or across unnavigable waters. （两条水路间船只或货物的）陆上运输 the cataracts meant that boats had to portage on to the Lualaba 这些大瀑布意味着船只必须从陆路搬运到卢瓦拉巴河。 Example sentencesExamples I must have one pair of knee-high wool-lined boots for portaging over the pack ice in Inglefield Fjord and a full-body survival suit to insulate against the 31-degree-Fahrenheit water. So, if portaging through downtown Calgary doesn't suit you, try one or a combination of these alternatives. Plan on dragging and portaging as much as paddling. Nonetheless, we eventually reached a tiny logjam, portaged up and over, and shoved off onto another expanse of flat brown water and giant stumps. So they ditched their treasure under a big rock and portaged to the Genesee up to Lake Ontario. Though not an avid canoeist, she managed to convince a friend to portage through Riverdale Park (south of Broadview station) one spring for a jaunt down the infamous stream. Jack London and his partners were among only hundreds who made it through that October of 1897, and at the last, they beat the ice by running Miles Canyon and the White Horse Rapids instead of portaging. It only weighs 65 pounds, too, so that means that I can portage across the river with it on my back and continue on my very slow way on the other side of said river. Their 33-mile adventure took nine days of scrambling, portaging, and even swimming. Attacking a thundering two-mile alley of cliffed-out whitewater they dubbed the Northeast Strait-away, the kayakers crossed from bank to bank, portaging when necessary and seal-launching into the current from huge boulders. The salmon fishing, black bear, moose, and caribou sightings, and frequent stops for scouting and portaging easily turn running the Main into a weeklong wilderness adventure. The best ones have a scuff-proof cover, fold up for portaging, and join two types of foam padding. All told, we'd traversed some forty-eight miles, paddling and portaging. On our first excursion to the lakes, while paddling and portaging between the two, we noticed that the water level of Lago Sarapaio, judging by vegetation and water marks, appeared to have been static over the previous few weeks. The raft guides assessed the rapids were too dangerous to shoot and the team would have to portage again. These were light, strong, fast, seaworthy, and could be portaged round falls or towed up rapids. He yelled down that portaging didn't look good on his side, but Clinton pushed for us to cross anyway. We'll put canoes into the northwestern corner of the Quetico park, and will paddle and portage in a lazy loop that will bring us back to the cars eventually. When we reached the next rapids, a five-foot ledge plunging into standing waves, I was ready to portage again. At another place they were forced to portage to avoid a series of logs which had fallen into the river. Origin Late Middle English: from French, from porter 'carry'. The sense relating to carrying between navigable waters dates from the late 17th century. Rhymes shortage portage¹ nounˈpôrdijˈpɔrdɪdʒ 1The carrying of a boat or its cargo between two navigable waters. （两条水路间船只或货物的）陆上运输 the return journey was made much simpler by portage 回程按陆上运输方式进行，因而要简单得多。 Example sentencesExamples The upside here is that the 300 is the right weight for your youngsters, and it's also pleasingly light for a long back-country hike or lengthy canoe portage. Yet, as I said to the four people waiting for us to clear one particularly messy portage, as I was standing there knee-deep in the muck: I said: This is what we come for, isn't it? At the end of our paddle we disembarked at a boat launch used by fisherman, and when we pulled ourselves out we immediately were chilled, so we changed into dry clothes for the 11-mile portage across to the saltwater. Desirous of keeping the militarily and economically strategic portage in their employ, the British decided that Alexis Maisonville and his brother Francis would be better trusted with it than the Indians. In spite of the hard portage today, we are happy campers. At each portage, then, they're carrying maybe 250 pounds, and before they reach the end of the race they will have done maybe 25 such portages. I won't bore you with details of our portage of the canoe back to the hire centre, excuses to the owners for our bedraggled state, or the hours spent warming up in the shower afterwards, but I will bore you with a little observation. The expedition's most difficult portage occurred in early June at a place called Grand Portage. The next day Lewis walked ahead with three men to find the Shoshones and horses for portage. First, today as in the past, canoe travel in the swampy coastal areas of Cameroon is the most efficient method of portage - not only for goods but also for ideas. It was short portage railway around a cataract in the St. Lawrence River, running only 14 miles between Lapraire on the St.Lawrence River and St.John's on the Richelieu River. The native villages are built at the heads of the rapids, so that they can spot intruders and attack them during portage. You boys are not strong enough to carry the canoe over the portage. The site benefited from centuries of Indian custom in that it lay athwart an old Indian portage between Lakes Pontchartrain and Borgne and the river, the trail that now terminated as Rue de l' Hôpital. The grueling eighteen-mile portage around the natural wonder, however, was a month-long ordeal with many days spent in preparation and eleven days in transit. We believe there will be a 400 metre portage involved so it is important to get the experience under our belt. As we neared that last portage, from Quetico Lake back into Beaverhouse, two eagles stood silent vigil in a dead tree along our way. Some families would stay there only in the fall for the caribou harvest and then would move on to trap in other areas of the barren lands or portage back to Tue Nedhe. The long-sought overland portage to the Columbia River that President Thomas Jefferson envisioned could not be too far distant. It is highly likely that the Vikings took the short portage at Tarbet, and found a retreat in Loch Morar. 1.1 A place where carrying a boat is necessary. 陆上运输点 a portage over the dam 拦河坝上方的陆上运输点。 Example sentencesExamples When not in the canoe or assisting at the portages, Murie gathered bird specimens with shotgun or rifle, took photographs with a durable camera, and, when time allowed, sketched his subjects. Evidence of this history is visible in the graveyards, trail markers, arrowheads, and campsites dotted along the paths and portages. The road is built over approximately 200 kilometres of lakes and portages in order to allow for transportation of fuel, housing materials and other goods required by the community. At each portage, then, they're carrying maybe 250 pounds, and before they reach the end of the race they will have done maybe 25 such portages. Cruise silently through a series of idyllic lakes with connecting passages and portages. They also hoped to find a short portage between the Marias and Saskatchewan Rivers that would allow the diversion of the western Canadian fur trade to American traders. It often took hours for the guides to find the streams and portages that joined the ‘exceedingly complicated’ system of lakes. With bodily force and strategic cajoling - namely, the false promise of a rest just a few portages away - I managed to coax her back into the boat. At one of the portages, Moses decided that he and Murie would run the rapids rather than carry the last canoe to calmer water. Aragorn thinks there might be a portage on the shore that will make passing the rapids easier. Follow the well-marked, modest portages from Birch Lake to Carp Lake, and into Emerald. At the start of the 19th century, Quetico was the busiest region of interior North America and in the peace of morning, if one pauses to listen, the ghosts of the old fur traders can still be heard stalking the portages. It got there, through the lakes and over the portages, in the canoes of the Voyageurs. Everyone's legs were masses of cuts and scrapes from numerous portages and wading through rocks. 1.2archaic The action of carrying or transporting something. 〈古〉搬运；运输 Synonyms transportation, transport, carriage, carrying, transfer, transference, movement, delivery verbˈpôrdijˈpɔrdɪdʒ [with object] 1Carry (a boat or its cargo) between navigable waters. （两条水路间船只或货物的）陆上运输 they are incapable of portaging a canoe no object they would only run the rapid if they couldn't portage Example sentencesExamples The paddlers - who plan to reach the coast by May - have been forced to portage several rapids and rappel down the side of Tis Isat Falls. This is a moderate river, and we're going to portage the big rapids. We portage the first four-foot drop, then decide to take our chances with the rest of the Class III rapids. Moving the boats and equipment on water was always the preferred option to portaging or carrying everything including boats overland between stretches or bodies of navigable water. Many Indian and Arab traders (and after them the Europeans) chose to land their products at Mergui and use barges to travel upriver to Tenasserim and then have their good portaged the rest of the way. Ethel seems quite happy portaging the canoe and testing the river's depths while her husband plays ‘backseat driver.’ The first obstacle was the infamous Northam Weir transpiring 500m from the start, forcing participants to carry or portage their craft. Without helicopter rescue, crews would have had to be self-reliant (as in the ‘old days’) through a combination of paddling and portaging boats through water and over the ice to reach land. So whether you're scampering up side canyons looking for hidden waterfalls, wading coastal waters in search of quahogs, or portaging an unrunnable section of river, the water shoes below will perform swimmingly. Anyone who's had to portage a kayak or put one on a roof rack will appreciate the lightweight boat. Throughout the evening and most of the next morning, we portage an unrunnable section of the river, then load up and paddle on in a cold, steady rain. Twenty-nine days later the Corps had traveled only 20 miles; portaging the falls had taken longer than expected. We landed upstream and portaged the heavy Fiberglass canoes past the group while they snorted, perhaps in amusement. As Clinton shouted instructions, they attempted to cross the swift 40-foot channel to the far bank, where portaging looked easier. It's obvious that the owners of the canoe are portaging, so we park nearby and walk along the shore to see if the rapid warrants our carrying as well. 1.1no object, with adverbial (of a boat) be carried between navigable waters. （两条水路间船只或货物的）陆上运输 the cataracts meant that boats had to portage on to the Lualaba 这些大瀑布意味着船只必须从陆路搬运到卢瓦拉巴河。 Example sentencesExamples So they ditched their treasure under a big rock and portaged to the Genesee up to Lake Ontario. Attacking a thundering two-mile alley of cliffed-out whitewater they dubbed the Northeast Strait-away, the kayakers crossed from bank to bank, portaging when necessary and seal-launching into the current from huge boulders. The best ones have a scuff-proof cover, fold up for portaging, and join two types of foam padding. The salmon fishing, black bear, moose, and caribou sightings, and frequent stops for scouting and portaging easily turn running the Main into a weeklong wilderness adventure. We'll put canoes into the northwestern corner of the Quetico park, and will paddle and portage in a lazy loop that will bring us back to the cars eventually. Though not an avid canoeist, she managed to convince a friend to portage through Riverdale Park (south of Broadview station) one spring for a jaunt down the infamous stream. I must have one pair of knee-high wool-lined boots for portaging over the pack ice in Inglefield Fjord and a full-body survival suit to insulate against the 31-degree-Fahrenheit water. Jack London and his partners were among only hundreds who made it through that October of 1897, and at the last, they beat the ice by running Miles Canyon and the White Horse Rapids instead of portaging. Plan on dragging and portaging as much as paddling. When we reached the next rapids, a five-foot ledge plunging into standing waves, I was ready to portage again. He yelled down that portaging didn't look good on his side, but Clinton pushed for us to cross anyway. It only weighs 65 pounds, too, so that means that I can portage across the river with it on my back and continue on my very slow way on the other side of said river. Nonetheless, we eventually reached a tiny logjam, portaged up and over, and shoved off onto another expanse of flat brown water and giant stumps. So, if portaging through downtown Calgary doesn't suit you, try one or a combination of these alternatives. On our first excursion to the lakes, while paddling and portaging between the two, we noticed that the water level of Lago Sarapaio, judging by vegetation and water marks, appeared to have been static over the previous few weeks. Their 33-mile adventure took nine days of scrambling, portaging, and even swimming. These were light, strong, fast, seaworthy, and could be portaged round falls or towed up rapids. The raft guides assessed the rapids were too dangerous to shoot and the team would have to portage again. At another place they were forced to portage to avoid a series of logs which had fallen into the river. All told, we'd traversed some forty-eight miles, paddling and portaging. Origin Late Middle English: from French, from porter ‘carry’. The sense relating to carrying between navigable waters dates from the late 17th century. Portage² proper nounˈpôrdəj 1A port city in northwestern Indiana, on Lake Erie, east of Gary; population 36,976 (est. 2008). 2A city in southwestern Michigan, south of Kalamazoo; population 46,133 (est. 2008). noun.1 name.1
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