fleet
fleet 英 [fli:t] 美 [flit]
adj. 快速的，敏捷的 n. 舰队；港湾；小河 vi. 飞逝；疾驰；掠过
进行时:fleeting 过去式:fleeted 过去分词:fleeted 第三人称单数:fleets 名词复数:fleets
- A fleet is usually a large group of ships, but it can be any group of vessels like planes or cars that operate as a unit. A naval fleet is the largest formation of warships. A naval fleet at sea is like an army on land.
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- adj. 快速的，敏捷的
- n. 舰队；港湾；小河
- vi. 飞逝；疾驰；掠过
- vt. 消磨
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1. They maintain a very powerful fleet in Oriental waters.
他们在远东海域保持着一支非常强大的舰队。
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2. Our warships bottled up the enemy fleet in the harbour.
我方军舰把敌方舰队围困在港口内。
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3. An enormously powerful fleet was concentrated at Pearl Harbour.
一支极其强大的舰队集结在珍珠港。
- fleet (adj.) "swift," 1520s, but probably older than the record; apparently from or cognate with Old Norse fliotr "swift," from Proto-Germanic *fleutaz, from PIE *pleud-, extended form of root *pleu- "to flow." Related: Fleetness.
- fleet (n.) Old English fleot "a ship, raft, floating vessel," also, collectively, "means of sea travel; boats generally," from fleotan "to float, swim," from PIE *pleud-, extended form of root *pleu- "to flow."
- fleet (v.) Old English fleotan "to float; drift; flow, run (as water); swim; sail (of a ship)," from Proto-Germanic *fleutan (source also of Old Frisian fliata, Old Saxon fliotan "to flow," Old High German fliozzan "to float, flow," German fliessen "to flow, run, trickle" (as water), Old Norse fliota "to float, flow"), from PIE root *pleu- "to flow."
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