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nounPlural ships ʃɪpʃɪp 1A large boat for transporting people or goods by sea. 海船，轮船 the ship left England with a crew of 36 Example sentencesExamples - There was every kind from little boats to huge cargo ships, from dilapidated sailboats to magnificent barges.
- The next level is represented by countries with sufficiently large naval surface ships.
- This is an international legal requirement for all personnel who work aboard ships, including sailors, officers, captains and engineers.
- After leaving the Army, Bill served on board a passenger ship sailing between Southampton and South Africa.
- The first two ships to set sail are just days away from British waters.
- This afternoon at 1:32 p.m. a Canadian cruise ship sailed near our borders.
- They follow ships at sea, feeding on the refuse left in their wakes.
- She said the family felt terrible that so many vacationers on board the cruise ship had been frightened and delayed.
- They will be joined later this week by 800 Royal Marines on the new helicopter assault ship Ocean, which has set sail with a flotilla of three support ships and a frigate.
- There are ships off the coast with humanitarian rations and medicines aboard.
- Travelers on board ships sailing from America were not yet foreigners, but they were definitely not at home.
- Returning to Metro had taken him several months of stowing away on cargo ships and transports before finally reaching the city.
- In the meantime, officials have cleared cruise ships to leave the port.
- Also, some of the cruise ships that traditionally dock here have left the area now, with their passengers on-board.
- A contract has been placed by the Ministry of Defence for two large amphibious landing ships.
- A man was arrested yesterday after a five-and-a-half hour siege on a cargo ship off the coast of Scotland.
- They also provide maintenance training for Sailors aboard ships.
- The location is a huge container ship docked in an unknown harbour.
- At sea German U-boats were sinking so many merchant ships that Britain was close to starvation.
- The packages are just for the sailors and marines aboard ships.
- 1.1 A sailing vessel with a bowsprit and three or more square-rigged masts.
三（或多）桅帆船 Example sentencesExamples - She found herself laying on the broken mast of the ship, with white sails and splinters of wood floating lazily around her.
- In the early years of sailing ships, the European ships had a square sail design.
- How many times as children did we pretend we were the captain of a pirate ship sailing the Spanish Main?
- The name St Elmo's fire came about because this type of lightning was first seen by sailors on the masts of ships, and St Elmo is the patron saint of sailors.
- In 1727 he won the Grand Prix of the Académie Royale des Sciences for his submission on masts of ships.
- Almost 100 lots were sold at the auction including a balloon ride and a trip on a tall sailing ship.
- Harnessed up and clipped on - and on flat water - the task was a different story to how it would have been in the glory days of square-rigged pirate ships, exposed on a rolling sea.
- All I could think about was my handsome brother dressed as a Mohawk swinging from the mast of the ship and landing on deck like a swashbuckling pirate!
- Shipwreck D is so well-preserved that cord tied in a V-shape at the top of the ship's wooden mast is still clearly visible.
- The ceiling was about ten feet high and seemed to reflect the actual sky that hung over the masts of the ship, many stories above.
- During the Civil War, Confederate ships frequently attacked Union vessels on the high seas.
- She stood at the bowsprit of the ship, as still as the bolted-down bench she was standing on.
- It was fantastic to see all the ships sails at full mast, it looked like some 18th century sea battle.
- In September 1519 he set sail with five ships and 240 men.
- Indeed, one of the main reasons for its construction was to prevent Viking ships from sailing unchecked upriver.
- The marines and seamen soon had the pirate ship swept of her inhabitants.
- He lashed himself to the ship's mast, plugged his crew's ears with wax and ordered them not to look at his face or listen to his commands.
- He believed that British shipping was licensed and that the opium ships were vessels which had evaded licensing.
- She stared at the pirate as he leaned up against the fore mast of the ship and grabbed a rope that connected to one of the sails for balance.
- At a young age, Ramona went out on her father's small sloop and learned everything about a ship and sailing.
- 1.2informal Any boat, especially a racing boat.
〈非正式〉船，艇（尤指赛艇） Example sentencesExamples - With a beam of 106 ft, the ships are the largest vessels that can fit through the Panama Canal.
- The air was thick with the smell of the ocean, sailors beginning to untie their ships for mornings of sailing and fishing.
- Luxury vessels and midsize ships sail from Vancouver, BC and Seattle.
Synonyms ocean liner, passenger vessel, boat
2A spaceship. 宇宙飞船 Example sentencesExamples - These people kept the ship running, transporting the strange and deadly cargo around the universe.
- He had been told to expect the ship to re-enter real space sometime in the next hour.
- Similarly, to deal with the intense radiation environment, the ship is equipped with a magnetic shield that they can turn on when needed.
- We're running out of here before that crowd gets to the spaceport and trashes our ship.
- For her efforts, the combined gunfire from the three ships finished the space station.
- Fighters kept their gravity well below Earth norm, the standard gravity found on ships and space stations.
- The two ships would dock in orbit, and propellants would transfer into the lunar craft.
- To launch a ship into higher orbit, or to a distant planet, it must carry more fuel.
- Over the course of the game, which is made up of thirteen missions, players will have the opportunity to pilot four different ships with eleven various starship weapons.
- Fighters will be launched and recovered from space stations and ships.
- There were whole armadas of different ships, space stations and planets, no end to the add-ons for your craft and every mission was different.
- He gave mental orders to his staff aboard the command ship in orbit beyond the third moon.
- Other ships were mineral transports bringing raw materials from the outlying planets of the solar system back to Earth for processing.
- It believes that a circular spaceship carrying 1,500 smaller ships filled with bombs will at some indeterminate point destroy both Britain and America.
- The stealthy ship had arrived on the planet several hours before, undetected by the Planetary Defense Grid.
- The command ship accommodated three astronauts and the lunar lander only two.
- They docked their ships back at the space station.
- Additionally, large alien space ships may orbit Earth.
- For Jameson, the building is like an alien ship, a space capsule.
3North American An aircraft. 〈北美〉飞机 Example sentencesExamples - Clearly, the aircraft was one hot ship and it started piling up victories until tragedy struck at the 1937 Cleveland event.
Synonyms aircraft, craft, flying machine
verbships, shipped, shipping ʃɪpʃɪp 1with object and adverbial of direction Transport (goods or people) on a ship. 用船运 the wounded soldiers were shipped home 受伤的士兵被用船运回了国内。 Example sentencesExamples - At 25 he joined the service and was shipped to the Philippines.
- Studying the debacle of the spoiled shipment, he surmised that other companies shipping perishable goods to Asia must have had similar experiences.
- If all else fails, the mafia hijack transports of cigarettes and alcohol and then ship the stolen goods into Britain.
- It takes another 12 days to ship goods directly from Tanjung Priok to Busan Port in South Korea.
- If goods are shipped to or from the United States, this bill of lading shall be subject to US Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1936.
- Community service, national service, shipping the offenders off to some far off land like Australia?
- She said that Namibia's access to the sea via the port of Walvis Bay would be a bonus for Namibia to ship goods to the US via the Atlantic Ocean.
- From its piers Iraq began to ship the goods from those factories to buyers in other countries throughout the region.
- The city currently spends $1.2 million annually to ship discarded bags to China for recycling.
- Trade goods were shipped from French Atlantic ports to Quebec, then to Montreal, to be sold to small companies of traders licensed to deal with Native suppliers in the interior.
- In 1686 alone these colonies shipped goods worth over £1 million to London.
- For quite a while I was a merchant, shipping goods to the Baronies, but when I saw what a fair town this was, I eventually decided to stay, and moved my collection here.
- Arab roofers and master tilers were shipped from Morocco.
- Nearly 40 percent of the containers are shipped back to California ports empty.
- The Air Service shipped some 3,000 carpenters, bricklayers, and laborers to England to prepare these facilities.
- During the spring of 1941, the plane was shipped to Britain and went into service with the Royal Air Force as a Hurricane Mark I.
- Manila and the adjacent ports are the best equipped to ship manufactured goods.
- Furthermore, he was the first man who shipped peaches from the United States to Europe.
- Of course, we'll cut their benefits, combat pay and make it difficult to ship their goods home from their overseas postings.
Synonyms convey, carry, take, transfer, move, shift, bring, fetch, send, deliver, bear, conduct, haul, lug, cart, run, ship, ferry - 1.1 Send by some other means of transport or by mail.
he was captured and shipped off to a labour camp 他被俘后被送往劳动营。 the freight would be shipped by rail spare parts were quickly shipped out Example sentencesExamples - It also owns transport companies, which are essential for shipping goods around the country.
- Unbelievably, most of the 1.5 billion tons of hazardous cargo shipped across this country every year go unchecked.
- For many years, material and bulk goods were shipped to military bases via rail, but now deliveries are made mostly by commercial trucks.
- A lot of our products are shipped by air.
- The construction company is shipping the goods to the town and is asking its customers to help with the appeal for goods and building materials.
- Transportation costs had to be incurred to ship goods to consumers in proportion to their distance from producers.
- For the same reasons, many U.S. online merchants, particularly smaller companies, do not currently ship goods to Canada.
- When we speak of trade, we usually think of goods being shipped across borders.
- 1.2no object (of a product) be made available for purchase.
〔电子〕使（产品）上市 the cellular phone is expected to ship at about $500 sometime this summer Example sentencesExamples - The delay is surely something of an embarrassment for the company, which recently promised the product would ship on 30 June.
- Expect more to be revealed when the product ships in Japan in July.
- Instead of companies being tied to the MySQL General Public License the product will ship under a commercial license.
- The company has already announced that the product will ship in Russia, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia.
- Support for IP is expected to be added some time after the product ships later this year.
- 1.3ship outno object (of a naval force) go to sea from a home port.
Bob got sick a week before we shipped out Example sentencesExamples - Whatever one believes, the accident has left deep anxiety among sailors who have just graduated from naval training and are about to ship out.
- U.S. troops get a preview of battlefield conditions before they ship out.
- The 203rd Legion has been ordered to ship out immediately.
- Lt. Philips has been called to active duty and is to ship out next week for Kuwait.
- Finally, on the morning of July 18 the regiment broke camp and boarded the transport Pennsylvania to ship out for the Philippines.
- For Martha Treadway, late August 1918 was dominated by the fear that Osie and Johnnie would ship out at any moment and she would never see them again.
- There was a time when young men from small towns in Texas were forced to ship out to New York or Hollywood in order to fulfill their dream of seeing themselves on the big screen.
- One just about to ship out, the other coming home for the holidays.
- When the 356th got ready to ship out they only needed one Replacement Pilot so they kept Withers and sent three of us back to Westover for re-assignment.
- For troops who have just returned from overseas or for those about to ship out, the USO is a valuable source of help and support.
- 1.4dated no object Embark on a ship.
〈旧〉上船，乘船 people wishing to get from London to New York ship at Liverpool 想从伦敦去纽约的人在利物浦上船。 - 1.5 (of a sailor) take service on a ship.
（水手）在船上工作 Jack, you shipped with the Admiral once, didn't you? 杰克，你曾经和舰队司令一起在船上工作过，对吧？
2with object (of a boat) take in (water) over the side. 在舷侧进（水） Example sentencesExamples - Imagine a number of passengers in an overcrowded lifeboat which has begun to ship water.
- Keeping close to the lee shore with John in the bows watching out for rocks, which could be the size of a small car we slowly made our way back to base, shipping a lot of water as we did so.
- He told me afterwards the yacht was believed to be shipping water and the fate of the skipper was not known.
- By the next morning, 1 June 1916, the Lutzow was shipping enough water to keep her speed below 5 knots.
- It is shipping water heavily, as last year's £247m loss demonstrates, and needs to throw half of its businesses overboard if it is to avoid being sunk by its debts.
- We were shipping a lot of water over the deck.
3with object Take (oars) from the rowlocks and lay them inside a boat. 把（桨架中的桨）放在船内 Example sentencesExamples - Then the crew of the long boat shipped their oars and headed for the shore of the chosen island.
- A hundred yards out he shipped the oars and started the motor.
- He quickly shipped his oar and shoved Lori roughly out of the way as he took care of hers.
- Once the boat had settled we shipped the oars, got out our lines, baited the hooks and dropped them over the gunwale.
- Katherine moved right out on deck just as Matt shipped his oars and called out.
- The barge slowed as it approached the quay, and the rowers shipped their oars.
- It get very annoying to have to, in effect, ship one's oars every time he passes, and continually having to check what he's doing.
- Slowly, she got into the rowing boat, shipped the oars and made her way across to the centre of the river.
- 3.1 Fix (something such as a rudder or mast) in its place on a boat or ship.
给船安装（舵、桅杆等）
PhrasesUsed with reference to a situation in which people are deserting an organization or enterprise that is failing. they have fled like rats from a sinking ship 他们早已像沉船上的老鼠一样逃跑了。 Example sentencesExamples - Given his obvious skills at putting the best face on a sinking ship, surely a role with the National Party would have been more appropriate?
- Has he received words of encouragement from friends and the like, or has this been jumping off a sinking ship?
- His resignation should shortly follow the elections, paving the way for someone new to come in and rebuild a sinking ship.
- But he got aboard a sinking ship and has had little chance to plug the leaks.
- I have to think of my future and I don't want to hang around a sinking ship.
- I, on the other hand am not impressed because if we're ever on a sinking ship, my husband is sinking like a rock.
- They haven't jumped a sinking ship and that's appreciated.
- Two months ago, his campaign looked like a sinking ship and today he's probably on the way to the nomination.
- The city government cleared out Tuesday night, leaving a sinking ship.
- So what makes the captain of a sinking ship so deserving?
- The experience that steadied a sinking ship is likely to remain and changes will be implemented with care.
(of a boat) be flooded by a wave. 〈英〉（船只）被浪淹没 Example sentencesExamples - He shipped a sea or two, as the sailor would say, before he was rescued by the helping hand of his companion from a watery grave.
- I do consider that for men in big ships a sea engagement is a particularly trying experience.
- In rounding Flamborough Head the boat shipped a sea and washed the mizzen and boom away, and filled the coble on deck.
- Zethar is one of the earlier boats with the low coaming at the forward end of the cockpit so if we were to ship a sea it would go straight below.
- It is very odd that this ship shipped a sea the very hour as we were, which stove her boats, and bulwarks.
- He accordingly decided on beaching the boat towards the Wanganui, but when about a mile from the shore she shipped a sea and eventually capsized.
- The third time, they got off, though not without shipping a sea which drenched them all, and half filled their boat, keeping them baling, until they reached their ship.
- Coming in we shipped a sea on the quarter bow, which caused the boat to fill and turn on her broadside.
- If she shipped a sea, or if she touched a snag (and there were plenty of them about) we were done for.
- One of the oilers stood watch at the dining room door, closing it when the boat shipped a sea and opening it when the decks were clear to let the water out of the cabins.
Set off on a voyage by ship; embark. 乘船出发；上船 they were due to take ship for Rhodes 他们将乘船前往罗得岛。 Example sentencesExamples - You will then take ship at Krelik and sail down the Spear.
- In 296, with Maximian guarding the Rhine, Constantius and his praetorian prefect, Asclepiodotus, took ship for Britain.
- The army took ship on 5 April, but was struck by catastrophe.
- And when we had taken our leave one of another, we took ship; and they returned home again.
- We took ship together to England, to visit the court in London.
- On 17 March 49 B.C., Pompey took ship for Macedonia.
- Early in 1406 events came to a head when James fled for safety to the Bass Rock, took ship for France, only to be captured at sea and delivered to Henry IV of England.
- The first battle was decisive, in so far as James immediately accepted that his own game was up, and took ship for France.
- These ambassadors took ship for Norway immediately after the court scene, on 2 November.
- Without the strong hand of the emperor, the German army began to break up: some returned to Europe, some took ship and sailed to Antioch, and some went overland to Antioch.
Synonyms board ship, go on board, go aboard, climb aboard, step aboard, take ship
that (or the) ship has sailed informal Used in reference to an opportunity that has passed or a situation that can no longer be changed. we're good friends but I don't think we'll ever be anything more to each other—that ship has sailed Example sentencesExamples - "They want us to reopen the case?" "No. That ship has sailed."
- The signs were pointing towards Gardner making his return before the end of the month, but that ship has sailed.
- That ship has sailed, and Wal-Mart is firmly at the helm.
- Well, I still think the art direction is a little too much the style of the books' designer, Seth, as opposed to Charles M. Schulz, but I suppose that ship has sailed.
- It's great that they can still pull big numbers with this show/format in Brazil and elsewhere, but the ship has sailed in North America.
- It's time to accept that the ship has sailed and no matter how hard I chase after it with the world's fastest speedboat I may never catch up.
- His smile still makes her melt, but Sarah knows that ship has sailed.
- And whenever you mention sovereignty now, you will be told: "Oh, that ship has sailed".
- That ship has sailed, and there is already nuclear waste at various power plants throughout the United States.
- I think the ship has sailed on my career in a uniform, though once in awhile I joke about being available if the Yankees need another reliever.
when one's ship comes in (or home) When one's fortune is made. 当发财的时候 Example sentencesExamples - I remember hearing my parents talk about how much better life would be when their ship came in, but I never knew whether or not they really expected it to happen.
- Even people who were flat broke got in on the action when brokers lent them the money to buy shares, in the belief that when their ship came in, they'd share the ride.
- She's the kind of real life gal who'll buy you a beer, let you cry on her shoulder and be the first one to give you a high-five when your ship comes in.
- But my worst fear - echoing my elder daughter's prediction that ‘Dad, when your ship comes in you'll be at the airport!’
- Uptown girl, you know I can't afford to buy her pearls, but maybe someday when my ship comes in, she'll understand what kind of guy I am.
- The right honourable gentleman opposite is a very naughty man, and he will laugh on the other side of his face when my ship comes in.
Derivativesadjective It was happily in the writer's childhood that Mrs. Stowe had written of those who dwelt along the wooded seacoast and by the decaying, shipless harbors of Maine. Example sentencesExamples - In spite of the loss, the injuries sustained, and the hardship suffered by the shipless crew, everyone still pressed on with their assignments.
- Its heroes, whose ghostly presences are often quoted in Kitaj's paintings, are the shipless helmsmen of modernism.
- After a tumultuous turn of events, the general cast of the show is nailed down as the three end up shipless on one of the large continents.
- Which, of course, went down like a lead Zeppelin with the shipless sailors in the pub.
adjective There's always that in-between food - food that is edible but not shippable. Example sentencesExamples - The Book prize is shippable anywhere in the world, whereas the other two non-transferable prizes should only be entered for by Bay Area residents who will be able to enjoy them in person.
- Anything a forward-thinking architect could imagine was invented, manufactured, packaged, searchable on the Internet, purchasable with a credit card, and shippable overnight.
- Juicy, deliciously shippable dry white with enthusiasm and glittering footwork.
- In areas where the trusses exceeded maximum shippable weights, they were delivered with splices at the one-third points.
- The introduction of these technologies (actual shippable product, that is) should bring new life to the midrange with its plethora of formats.
OriginOld English scip (noun), late Old English scipian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch schip and German Schiff. An Old English word related to Dutch schip and German Schiff. The expression when someone's ship comes in, ‘when someone's fortune is made’, is recorded from the mid 19th century. The safe arrival of a ship carrying a valuable cargo meant an instant financial reward for the owner and any others with shares in the enterprise. See also Bristol, half
Rhymesblip, chip, clip, dip, drip, equip, flip, grip, gyp, hip, kip, lip, nip, outstrip, pip, quip, rip, scrip, sip, skip, slip, snip, strip, tip, toodle-pip, trip, whip, yip, zip nounPlural ships ʃɪpʃɪp informal A romantic pairing between two characters in a fictional series, often one that is supported or portrayed by fans rather than depicted in the series itself. the thing that I loved about the Mulder/Scully ship was that we knew so much about their characters Example sentencesExamples - I like to read about ships between fictional characters.
- While some might have welcomed a ship of Tauriel and Legolas, there are still plenty, us included, who disagree.
- This one's for fans of the Draco and Hermione ship.
- In January she dipped into the world of Harry/Draco, and has been writing in that ship ever since.
- I literally cannot wait until your opinion piece on ships and fan fiction.
- Their dedication to their ships is scary sometimes.
- I'm sure that many will agree with me when I say that Mulder and Scully are the ship to end all ships.
- My fave ships are from shows: Bones, Being Human, True Blood etc.
- It looks like the Kirk/Spock ship is back in this new clip from Star Trek: Into The Darkness.
verbships, shipped, shipping ʃɪpʃɪp [no object]informal Support or have a particular interest in a romantic pairing between two characters in a fictional series, often when this relationship is one portrayed by fans rather than depicted in the series itself. I'm still shipping for Edward/Hermione with object if you ship Paul and Sarah, then you'd better avert your eyes for this next part Example sentencesExamples - Ever since I became attached to the Harry Potter universe I have always shipped for Harry/Hermione all the way.
- Mindy/Danny are meant to be together, no rush; the anticipation is a huge part of what makes shipping these guys so much fun.
- I've been shipping for Emily/Jack since the pilot of season 1.
- No Mindy-Jeremy shipping for now: one of the story lines they had just begun shooting was Jeremy dating one of Mindy's best friends.
- I'm shipping hard on Danny and Mindy on The Mindy Project!
- I don’t ship Aragorn/Legolas, but there’s so much subtext in the movies with all the significant looks they exchange.
- I ship Aragorn and Boromir: it's so sad at his death and Aragorn kisses his forehead.
- Love Downton Abbey: specifially ship Mr Carson and Mrs Hughes.
- People who ship Sam and Frodo literally disgust me.
- I ship for Harry/Hermione because, well, they're always dropping hints.
OriginEarly 21st century: abbreviation of relationship. nounʃɪpSHip 1A vessel larger than a boat for transporting people or goods by sea. 海船，轮船 Example sentencesExamples - In the meantime, officials have cleared cruise ships to leave the port.
- A contract has been placed by the Ministry of Defence for two large amphibious landing ships.
- There was every kind from little boats to huge cargo ships, from dilapidated sailboats to magnificent barges.
- The first two ships to set sail are just days away from British waters.
- Travelers on board ships sailing from America were not yet foreigners, but they were definitely not at home.
- She said the family felt terrible that so many vacationers on board the cruise ship had been frightened and delayed.
- This is an international legal requirement for all personnel who work aboard ships, including sailors, officers, captains and engineers.
- This afternoon at 1:32 p.m. a Canadian cruise ship sailed near our borders.
- The next level is represented by countries with sufficiently large naval surface ships.
- There are ships off the coast with humanitarian rations and medicines aboard.
- A man was arrested yesterday after a five-and-a-half hour siege on a cargo ship off the coast of Scotland.
- At sea German U-boats were sinking so many merchant ships that Britain was close to starvation.
- The packages are just for the sailors and marines aboard ships.
- They also provide maintenance training for Sailors aboard ships.
- They will be joined later this week by 800 Royal Marines on the new helicopter assault ship Ocean, which has set sail with a flotilla of three support ships and a frigate.
- After leaving the Army, Bill served on board a passenger ship sailing between Southampton and South Africa.
- The location is a huge container ship docked in an unknown harbour.
- They follow ships at sea, feeding on the refuse left in their wakes.
- Also, some of the cruise ships that traditionally dock here have left the area now, with their passengers on-board.
- Returning to Metro had taken him several months of stowing away on cargo ships and transports before finally reaching the city.
- 1.1 A sailing vessel with a bowsprit and three or more square-rigged masts.
三（或多）桅帆船 Example sentencesExamples - Almost 100 lots were sold at the auction including a balloon ride and a trip on a tall sailing ship.
- He believed that British shipping was licensed and that the opium ships were vessels which had evaded licensing.
- She found herself laying on the broken mast of the ship, with white sails and splinters of wood floating lazily around her.
- At a young age, Ramona went out on her father's small sloop and learned everything about a ship and sailing.
- During the Civil War, Confederate ships frequently attacked Union vessels on the high seas.
- She stood at the bowsprit of the ship, as still as the bolted-down bench she was standing on.
- All I could think about was my handsome brother dressed as a Mohawk swinging from the mast of the ship and landing on deck like a swashbuckling pirate!
- In the early years of sailing ships, the European ships had a square sail design.
- She stared at the pirate as he leaned up against the fore mast of the ship and grabbed a rope that connected to one of the sails for balance.
- He lashed himself to the ship's mast, plugged his crew's ears with wax and ordered them not to look at his face or listen to his commands.
- The ceiling was about ten feet high and seemed to reflect the actual sky that hung over the masts of the ship, many stories above.
- The marines and seamen soon had the pirate ship swept of her inhabitants.
- Shipwreck D is so well-preserved that cord tied in a V-shape at the top of the ship's wooden mast is still clearly visible.
- It was fantastic to see all the ships sails at full mast, it looked like some 18th century sea battle.
- In September 1519 he set sail with five ships and 240 men.
- Indeed, one of the main reasons for its construction was to prevent Viking ships from sailing unchecked upriver.
- Harnessed up and clipped on - and on flat water - the task was a different story to how it would have been in the glory days of square-rigged pirate ships, exposed on a rolling sea.
- The name St Elmo's fire came about because this type of lightning was first seen by sailors on the masts of ships, and St Elmo is the patron saint of sailors.
- In 1727 he won the Grand Prix of the Académie Royale des Sciences for his submission on masts of ships.
- How many times as children did we pretend we were the captain of a pirate ship sailing the Spanish Main?
- 1.2informal Any boat, especially a racing boat.
〈非正式〉船，艇（尤指赛艇） Example sentencesExamples - Luxury vessels and midsize ships sail from Vancouver, BC and Seattle.
- With a beam of 106 ft, the ships are the largest vessels that can fit through the Panama Canal.
- The air was thick with the smell of the ocean, sailors beginning to untie their ships for mornings of sailing and fishing.
Synonyms ocean liner, passenger vessel, boat - 1.3 A spaceship.
宇宙飞船 Example sentencesExamples - Over the course of the game, which is made up of thirteen missions, players will have the opportunity to pilot four different ships with eleven various starship weapons.
- To launch a ship into higher orbit, or to a distant planet, it must carry more fuel.
- Fighters kept their gravity well below Earth norm, the standard gravity found on ships and space stations.
- They docked their ships back at the space station.
- Other ships were mineral transports bringing raw materials from the outlying planets of the solar system back to Earth for processing.
- These people kept the ship running, transporting the strange and deadly cargo around the universe.
- Fighters will be launched and recovered from space stations and ships.
- For Jameson, the building is like an alien ship, a space capsule.
- The command ship accommodated three astronauts and the lunar lander only two.
- We're running out of here before that crowd gets to the spaceport and trashes our ship.
- It believes that a circular spaceship carrying 1,500 smaller ships filled with bombs will at some indeterminate point destroy both Britain and America.
- For her efforts, the combined gunfire from the three ships finished the space station.
- Similarly, to deal with the intense radiation environment, the ship is equipped with a magnetic shield that they can turn on when needed.
- Additionally, large alien space ships may orbit Earth.
- The stealthy ship had arrived on the planet several hours before, undetected by the Planetary Defense Grid.
- The two ships would dock in orbit, and propellants would transfer into the lunar craft.
- He gave mental orders to his staff aboard the command ship in orbit beyond the third moon.
- There were whole armadas of different ships, space stations and planets, no end to the add-ons for your craft and every mission was different.
- He had been told to expect the ship to re-enter real space sometime in the next hour.
- 1.4North American An aircraft.
〈北美〉飞机 Example sentencesExamples - Clearly, the aircraft was one hot ship and it started piling up victories until tragedy struck at the 1937 Cleveland event.
Synonyms aircraft, craft, flying machine
verbʃɪpSHip [with object]1Transport (goods or people) on a ship. 用船运 the wounded soldiers were shipped home 受伤的士兵被用船运回了国内。 Example sentencesExamples - It takes another 12 days to ship goods directly from Tanjung Priok to Busan Port in South Korea.
- The Air Service shipped some 3,000 carpenters, bricklayers, and laborers to England to prepare these facilities.
- Manila and the adjacent ports are the best equipped to ship manufactured goods.
- The city currently spends $1.2 million annually to ship discarded bags to China for recycling.
- Arab roofers and master tilers were shipped from Morocco.
- In 1686 alone these colonies shipped goods worth over £1 million to London.
- Nearly 40 percent of the containers are shipped back to California ports empty.
- She said that Namibia's access to the sea via the port of Walvis Bay would be a bonus for Namibia to ship goods to the US via the Atlantic Ocean.
- Furthermore, he was the first man who shipped peaches from the United States to Europe.
- From its piers Iraq began to ship the goods from those factories to buyers in other countries throughout the region.
- If goods are shipped to or from the United States, this bill of lading shall be subject to US Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1936.
- If all else fails, the mafia hijack transports of cigarettes and alcohol and then ship the stolen goods into Britain.
- At 25 he joined the service and was shipped to the Philippines.
- Studying the debacle of the spoiled shipment, he surmised that other companies shipping perishable goods to Asia must have had similar experiences.
- Community service, national service, shipping the offenders off to some far off land like Australia?
- During the spring of 1941, the plane was shipped to Britain and went into service with the Royal Air Force as a Hurricane Mark I.
- Trade goods were shipped from French Atlantic ports to Quebec, then to Montreal, to be sold to small companies of traders licensed to deal with Native suppliers in the interior.
- Of course, we'll cut their benefits, combat pay and make it difficult to ship their goods home from their overseas postings.
- For quite a while I was a merchant, shipping goods to the Baronies, but when I saw what a fair town this was, I eventually decided to stay, and moved my collection here.
Synonyms convey, carry, take, transfer, move, shift, bring, fetch, send, deliver, bear, conduct, haul, lug, cart, run, ship, ferry - 1.1 Send by some other means of transport or by mail.
the freight would be shipped by rail spare parts were quickly shipped out his papers have already been shipped to the University of Kansas Example sentencesExamples - Unbelievably, most of the 1.5 billion tons of hazardous cargo shipped across this country every year go unchecked.
- When we speak of trade, we usually think of goods being shipped across borders.
- For the same reasons, many U.S. online merchants, particularly smaller companies, do not currently ship goods to Canada.
- A lot of our products are shipped by air.
- For many years, material and bulk goods were shipped to military bases via rail, but now deliveries are made mostly by commercial trucks.
- Transportation costs had to be incurred to ship goods to consumers in proportion to their distance from producers.
- It also owns transport companies, which are essential for shipping goods around the country.
- The construction company is shipping the goods to the town and is asking its customers to help with the appeal for goods and building materials.
- 1.2no object (of a product) be made available for purchase.
〔电子〕使（产品）上市 the cellular phone is expected to ship at about $500 sometime this summer Example sentencesExamples - Support for IP is expected to be added some time after the product ships later this year.
- Expect more to be revealed when the product ships in Japan in July.
- The delay is surely something of an embarrassment for the company, which recently promised the product would ship on 30 June.
- The company has already announced that the product will ship in Russia, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia.
- Instead of companies being tied to the MySQL General Public License the product will ship under a commercial license.
- 1.3ship outno object (of a naval force) go to sea from a home port.
Bob got sick a week before we shipped out Example sentencesExamples - There was a time when young men from small towns in Texas were forced to ship out to New York or Hollywood in order to fulfill their dream of seeing themselves on the big screen.
- One just about to ship out, the other coming home for the holidays.
- When the 356th got ready to ship out they only needed one Replacement Pilot so they kept Withers and sent three of us back to Westover for re-assignment.
- Lt. Philips has been called to active duty and is to ship out next week for Kuwait.
- For troops who have just returned from overseas or for those about to ship out, the USO is a valuable source of help and support.
- For Martha Treadway, late August 1918 was dominated by the fear that Osie and Johnnie would ship out at any moment and she would never see them again.
- U.S. troops get a preview of battlefield conditions before they ship out.
- Whatever one believes, the accident has left deep anxiety among sailors who have just graduated from naval training and are about to ship out.
- Finally, on the morning of July 18 the regiment broke camp and boarded the transport Pennsylvania to ship out for the Philippines.
- The 203rd Legion has been ordered to ship out immediately.
- 1.4dated no object Embark on a ship.
〈旧〉上船，乘船 people wishing to get from London to New York ship at Liverpool 想从伦敦去纽约的人在利物浦上船。 - 1.5no object (of a sailor) serve on a ship.
（水手）在船上工作 Jack, you shipped with the Admiral once, didn't you? 杰克，你曾经和舰队司令一起在船上工作过，对吧？
2(of a boat) take in (water) over the side. 在舷侧进（水） Example sentencesExamples - Imagine a number of passengers in an overcrowded lifeboat which has begun to ship water.
- We were shipping a lot of water over the deck.
- It is shipping water heavily, as last year's £247m loss demonstrates, and needs to throw half of its businesses overboard if it is to avoid being sunk by its debts.
- He told me afterwards the yacht was believed to be shipping water and the fate of the skipper was not known.
- Keeping close to the lee shore with John in the bows watching out for rocks, which could be the size of a small car we slowly made our way back to base, shipping a lot of water as we did so.
- By the next morning, 1 June 1916, the Lutzow was shipping enough water to keep her speed below 5 knots.
3Take (oars) from the oarlocks and lay them inside a boat. 把（桨架中的桨）放在船内 Example sentencesExamples - He quickly shipped his oar and shoved Lori roughly out of the way as he took care of hers.
- Slowly, she got into the rowing boat, shipped the oars and made her way across to the centre of the river.
- Then the crew of the long boat shipped their oars and headed for the shore of the chosen island.
- It get very annoying to have to, in effect, ship one's oars every time he passes, and continually having to check what he's doing.
- A hundred yards out he shipped the oars and started the motor.
- The barge slowed as it approached the quay, and the rowers shipped their oars.
- Katherine moved right out on deck just as Matt shipped his oars and called out.
- Once the boat had settled we shipped the oars, got out our lines, baited the hooks and dropped them over the gunwale.
- 3.1 Fix (something such as a rudder or mast) in its place on a ship.
给船安装（舵、桅杆等）
PhrasesUsed in various phrases to describe an organization or endeavor that is failing, usually in the context of criticizing someone for leaving it. 即将沉没的船（用于各种短语中，指正在走向失败的组织或努力，常用在指责某人此时离开的语境中） they have fled like rats from a sinking ship 他们早已像沉船上的老鼠一样逃跑了。 Example sentencesExamples - The experience that steadied a sinking ship is likely to remain and changes will be implemented with care.
- Two months ago, his campaign looked like a sinking ship and today he's probably on the way to the nomination.
- I, on the other hand am not impressed because if we're ever on a sinking ship, my husband is sinking like a rock.
- Given his obvious skills at putting the best face on a sinking ship, surely a role with the National Party would have been more appropriate?
- So what makes the captain of a sinking ship so deserving?
- They haven't jumped a sinking ship and that's appreciated.
- I have to think of my future and I don't want to hang around a sinking ship.
- His resignation should shortly follow the elections, paving the way for someone new to come in and rebuild a sinking ship.
- Has he received words of encouragement from friends and the like, or has this been jumping off a sinking ship?
- The city government cleared out Tuesday night, leaving a sinking ship.
- But he got aboard a sinking ship and has had little chance to plug the leaks.
Set off on a voyage by ship; embark. 乘船出发；上船 finally, he took ship for Boston Example sentencesExamples - You will then take ship at Krelik and sail down the Spear.
- In 296, with Maximian guarding the Rhine, Constantius and his praetorian prefect, Asclepiodotus, took ship for Britain.
- The army took ship on 5 April, but was struck by catastrophe.
- Without the strong hand of the emperor, the German army began to break up: some returned to Europe, some took ship and sailed to Antioch, and some went overland to Antioch.
- We took ship together to England, to visit the court in London.
- And when we had taken our leave one of another, we took ship; and they returned home again.
- Early in 1406 events came to a head when James fled for safety to the Bass Rock, took ship for France, only to be captured at sea and delivered to Henry IV of England.
- The first battle was decisive, in so far as James immediately accepted that his own game was up, and took ship for France.
- These ambassadors took ship for Norway immediately after the court scene, on 2 November.
- On 17 March 49 B.C., Pompey took ship for Macedonia.
Synonyms board ship, go on board, go aboard, climb aboard, step aboard, take ship
that (or the) ship has sailed informal Used in reference to an opportunity that has passed or a situation that can no longer be changed. we're good friends but I don't think we'll ever be anything more to each other—that ship has sailed Example sentencesExamples - It's great that they can still pull big numbers with this show/format in Brazil and elsewhere, but the ship has sailed in North America.
- It's time to accept that the ship has sailed and no matter how hard I chase after it with the world's fastest speedboat I may never catch up.
- His smile still makes her melt, but Sarah knows that ship has sailed.
- That ship has sailed, and Wal-Mart is firmly at the helm.
- "They want us to reopen the case?" "No. That ship has sailed."
- The signs were pointing towards Gardner making his return before the end of the month, but that ship has sailed.
- And whenever you mention sovereignty now, you will be told: "Oh, that ship has sailed".
- That ship has sailed, and there is already nuclear waste at various power plants throughout the United States.
- I think the ship has sailed on my career in a uniform, though once in awhile I joke about being available if the Yankees need another reliever.
- Well, I still think the art direction is a little too much the style of the books' designer, Seth, as opposed to Charles M. Schulz, but I suppose that ship has sailed.
when one's ship comes in (or home) When one's fortune is made. 当发财的时候 Example sentencesExamples - I remember hearing my parents talk about how much better life would be when their ship came in, but I never knew whether or not they really expected it to happen.
- Even people who were flat broke got in on the action when brokers lent them the money to buy shares, in the belief that when their ship came in, they'd share the ride.
- The right honourable gentleman opposite is a very naughty man, and he will laugh on the other side of his face when my ship comes in.
- But my worst fear - echoing my elder daughter's prediction that ‘Dad, when your ship comes in you'll be at the airport!’
- Uptown girl, you know I can't afford to buy her pearls, but maybe someday when my ship comes in, she'll understand what kind of guy I am.
- She's the kind of real life gal who'll buy you a beer, let you cry on her shoulder and be the first one to give you a high-five when your ship comes in.
Phrasal VerbsSend (goods) to a distributor or customer, especially by ship. Example sentencesExamples - And just to set the stage, it is a dirty bomb that apparently goes off in one of the shipping containers out here at the Los Angeles Harbor.
- With a majority of South Carolina breeders shipping mares out of state, another area of emphasis will be to encourage more in-state breeding.
- Assemble a set of blocks and ship it out to the customer.
- If the US wants to ship goods out of, say, Houston or Dallas, the shortest, least expensive route is through Mexico to the port of Manzanillo and out to Asia.
- See how deftly I drop this server crate into the space ably provided by the combination of a slice and rack and how the organisational software automatically ships it out of the warehouse.
- They tried to ship the family out of the country to Brazil, took their furniture out of their apartment, wouldn't give it back, wouldn't get their passports and visas.
- It's illegal to bring alcohol into Iran but it's not illegal to ship it out of Iraq.
- A week later, the company assembles the ingredients into sauce and ships it out.
- But now we build cars in March and start shipping them out in the early part of April, and that really is helpful.
- We need to know who they are, and if they are here for the right reasons then we can deal with them, but if they are here for the wrong reasons we need to load them up and ship them out.
OriginOld English scip (noun), late Old English scipian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch schip and German Schiff. nounʃɪpSHip informal A romantic pairing between two characters in a fictional series, often one that is supported or portrayed by fans rather than depicted in the series itself. the thing that I loved about the Mulder/Scully ship was that we knew so much about their characters Example sentencesExamples - I'm sure that many will agree with me when I say that Mulder and Scully are the ship to end all ships.
- I literally cannot wait until your opinion piece on ships and fan fiction.
- Their dedication to their ships is scary sometimes.
- In January she dipped into the world of Harry/Draco, and has been writing in that ship ever since.
- I like to read about ships between fictional characters.
- My fave ships are from shows: Bones, Being Human, True Blood etc.
- This one's for fans of the Draco and Hermione ship.
- While some might have welcomed a ship of Tauriel and Legolas, there are still plenty, us included, who disagree.
- It looks like the Kirk/Spock ship is back in this new clip from Star Trek: Into The Darkness.
verbʃɪpSHip [no object]informal Support or have a particular interest in a romantic pairing between two characters in a fictional series, often when this relationship is one portrayed by fans rather than depicted in the series itself. I'm still shipping for Edward/Hermione with object if you ship Paul and Sarah, then you'd better avert your eyes for this next part Example sentencesExamples - Mindy/Danny are meant to be together, no rush; the anticipation is a huge part of what makes shipping these guys so much fun.
- I ship for Harry/Hermione because, well, they're always dropping hints.
- I've been shipping for Emily/Jack since the pilot of season 1.
- No Mindy-Jeremy shipping for now: one of the story lines they had just begun shooting was Jeremy dating one of Mindy's best friends.
- Ever since I became attached to the Harry Potter universe I have always shipped for Harry/Hermione all the way.
- People who ship Sam and Frodo literally disgust me.
- I'm shipping hard on Danny and Mindy on The Mindy Project!
- I don’t ship Aragorn/Legolas, but there’s so much subtext in the movies with all the significant looks they exchange.
- Love Downton Abbey: specifially ship Mr Carson and Mrs Hughes.
- I ship Aragorn and Boromir: it's so sad at his death and Aragorn kisses his forehead.
OriginEarly 21st century: abbreviation of relationship. |