canoe
canoe 英 [kəˈnu:] 美 [kəˈnu]
n. 独木舟；轻舟 vi. 乘独木舟 vt. 用独木舟运
进行时:canoeing 过去式:canoed 过去分词:canoed 第三人称单数:canoes 名词复数:canoes
- A canoe is a narrow boat that you propel and steer by paddling. Most canoes are fairly light, so that one or two people can carry them easily to the water.
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- n. 独木舟；轻舟
- vi. 乘独木舟
- vt. 用独木舟运
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1. The explorers paddled their canoe cautiously upstream.
探险者们谨慎地把独木舟向上游划去。
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2. At a summer job working as park naturalists that year, I flipped the canoe Air and I were paddling and we had to push it to shore.
那年我在公园里做暑期兼职，我把独木舟翻转个身，然后我们一起合力将它推到岸边，这样我们就可以划船了。
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3. I remember the first time I visited a village in Vietnam, in 1995: we endured hours and hours of rutty roads or long hours in a canoe to reach project sites.
我记得1995年第一次访问越南一个村落，我们捱过很多小时的路途颠簸、坐了很多小时的独木舟，才到达项目的所在地。
- canoe (n.) "light boat propelled by hand-held paddle or paddles," 1550s, originally in a West Indian context, from Spanish canoa, a word used by Columbus, from Arawakan (Haiti) canaoua. Extended to rough-made or dugout boats generally. Early variants in English included cano, canow, canoa, etc., before spelling settled down 18c. The American phrase paddle (one's) own canoe "make one's way in life" is attested by 1854.
- canoe (v.) "paddle a canoe," 1842 (implied in canooing), from canoe (n.). Related: Canoed; canoeing.
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