flotilla
flotilla 英 [fləˈtɪlə] 美 [floʊˈtɪlə]
n. 小型船队；小舰队
名词复数:flotillas
- If you see a boy launch a flotilla of handmade sailboats on the far side of a pond, chances are his fleet of ships won't make it to your side of the pond.
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- n. 小型船队；小舰队
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1. But very soon the water was churned by an ad hoc flotilla of boats and ferries flying the flags of almost every city, state and federal agency that works the waters around New York City.
但是很快平静的水面就被特别的救援船队和在纽约周边从事水上作业的渡船搅动起来，这些船只上悬挂着来自几乎各个城市、州以及联邦机构的旗帜。
- flotilla (n.) "a small fleet," 1711, from Spanish flotilla, diminutive of flota "a fleet," from flotar "to float," which is said to be from Old French floter "to float, set afloat," which is from a word in Frankish or some other Germanic language (such as Old Norse floti "raft, fleet"), from PIE *plud-, extended form of root *pleu- "to flow." Sometimes also "a fleet of small ships."
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