quay 英 [ki:]   美 [ki]

quay

quay  英 [ki:] 美 [ki]

n. 码头 

名词复数:quays 

The vessel anchored alongside the quay. 船靠码头抛了锚。
And this is the quay of Vladivostok and a submarine beside it that now serves as a museum. 这是海参葳的码头,他旁边的潜艇现在被作为了一个博物馆。

  • You know that wharf on the bank of the river where all the boats park? It's not an aqua parking lot. It's called a quay.
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  • n. 码头
  • 1. The vessel anchored alongside the quay.

    船靠码头抛了锚。

  • 2. And this is the quay of Vladivostok and a submarine beside it that now serves as a museum.

    这是海参葳的码头,他旁边的潜艇现在被作为了一个博物馆。

  • 3. In the dark of early morning, their tuna are graded and laid out in long rows on aluminum pallets in pools of blood in the big tuna-auction hall, in a quay of the main building.

    在清晨的黑暗之中,在码头的主楼里面的一个大型金枪鱼拍卖大厅里,他们把金枪鱼分级,并把它们摆放在浸泡在血泊之中的铝制托盘里。

  • quay (n.) 1690s, variant of Middle English key, keye, caye "wharf" (c. 1300; mid-13c. in place names), from Old North French cai (Old French chai, 12c., Modern French quai) "sand bank," from Gaulish caium (5c.), from Old Celtic *kagio- "to encompass, enclose" (source also of Welsh cae "fence, hedge," Cornish ke "hedge"), from PIE *kagh- "to catch, seize; wickerwork, fence" (see hedge (n.)). Spelling altered in English by influence of French quai.
quay / kiː ; NAmE kiː / noun a platform in a harbourwhere boats come in to load, etc. 码头;埠头 A crowd was waiting on the quay. 有一群人在码头上等着。 quay quays quay / kiː ; NAmE kiː /
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