jetty
jetty 英 [ˈdʒeti] 美 [ˈdʒɛti]
n. 码头；防波堤 adj. 乌黑发亮的，煤玉似的 vi. 伸出
名词复数:jetties
- A jetty is a narrow structure that's built to stretch from land out into the water. Some jetties act as docks or piers for boats.
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- n. 码头；防波堤
- adj. 乌黑发亮的，煤玉似的
- vi. 伸出
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1. Kyla drives us down river a few miles until we see a hut and a wooden jetty.
吉拉驾车带我们沿河行驶了数英里，直到我们看见一幢小屋和一个用木头建成的码头。
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2. The Cooloola Queen drifts away from the jetty but not before the skipper excitedly reports a big brown tree python camouflaged in the limbs of a river red gum.
库罗拉女王号将要驶离码头，此时船长兴奋得告诉我们他发现了一条巨大的棕色树蟒正隐匿在一棵赤桉的树枝上。
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3. You can take your entire home on day-long deep-sea jaunts, then return to the jetty at night and power down.
你可以用它带上全家进行为期一天的深海旅游，晚上再回到码头关闭电源。
- jetty (n.) early 15c., from Old French jetee, getee "a jetty, a pier; a projecting part of a building," also "a throw," noun use of fem. past participle of jeter "to throw," from Latin iacere "to lie, rest," related to iacere "to throw" (from PIE root *ye- "to throw, impel"). The notion is of a structure "thrown out" past what surrounds it.
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