skiff
skiff 英 [skɪf] 美 [skɪf]
n. 小艇；小型帆船；轻舟
名词复数:skiffs
- A skiff is a small boat. If you decide to purchase a skiff instead of giant yacht, you're probably someone who prefers the quiet, simple life. (Or maybe you just didn’t want to spend the money on a yacht.)
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- n. 小艇；小型帆船；轻舟
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1. May I have the use of your skiff?
我可以借用一下您的小艇吗？
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2. First we have the "Pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff," and the pilot stands ab extra, from outside, in the simile.
首先我们有这句“迷茫深夜中，轻舟的导航人“,并且这个导航人在明喻中，体现为从诗句之外向内眺望。
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3. WHEN pirates attacked the MV Kition, a Greek tanker, late at night in the Gulf of Aden on May 1st, a Portuguese helicopter scared off the assailants and tracked their skiff to its “mother ship”.
5月1日深夜，当海盗在亚丁湾攻击希腊油轮——“奎神号”时，一架葡萄牙直升机吓退了袭击者，并且一路追踪小艇，找到了“母舰”的位置；
- skiff (n.) "small boat," 1570s, from French esquif (1540s), from Italian schifo "little boat," from a Germanic source (such as Old High German scif "boat;" see ship (n.)). Originally the small boat of a ship.
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