quay
quay 英 [ki:] 美 [ki]
n. 码头
名词复数:quays
- 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
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1. The vessel anchored alongside the quay.
船靠码头抛了锚。
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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。
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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.
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