fleet
fleet 英 [fli:t] 美 [flit]
n. 舰队；船队
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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- n. 舰队；船队
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1. a fishing fleet, a whaling fleet
捕鱼╱捕鲸船队
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2. a reduction in the size of the British fleet
英国海军的裁减
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3. the company's new fleet of vans
公司的新客货车队
- 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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