sails

英 [seɪlz]

美 [seɪlz]

v.  (船)航行; (人)乘船航行; 驾驶(或乘坐)帆船航行(尤指作为体育运动); 起航
n.  帆; 乘船航行; (风车的)翼板
sail的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 帆
  Sailsare large pieces of material attached to the mast of a ship. The wind blows against the sails and pushes the ship along.
  1. The white sails billow with the breezes they catch.
     一张张白帆随着微风舞动。
• VERB (船)航行，行驶
  You say a shipsailswhen it moves over the sea.
  1. The trawler had sailed from the port of Zeebrugge...
     拖网渔船已经驶离了泽布吕赫港。
  2. The Kruzenshtern is expected to sail for Boston this week.
     “克鲁森施滕”号预计将于本星期启航前往波士顿。
• V-ERG 驾驶(帆船);(船)扬帆行驶
  If yousaila boat or if a boatsails, it moves across water using its sails.
  1. I shall get myself a little boat and sail her around the world...
     我要给自己买一条小船，驾着它环游世界。
  2. For nearly two hundred miles she sailed on, her sails hard with ice...
     它在船帆硬邦邦地结满了冰的情况下连续航行了将近 200 英里。
  3. She sails beautifully in winds over 60 knots.
     它扬着帆以超过 60 节的船速乘风破浪。
• N-COUNT (风车的)翼板
  Thesailson a windmill are the long flat parts that are turned by the wind.
  1. ...a windmill, its sails turning in the breeze.
     翼板在微风中转动的风车
• VERB (人、物体)轻快而迅速地移动，飘过，飞过，掠过
  If a person or thingsailssomewhere, they move there smoothly and fairly quickly.
  1. We got into the lift and sailed to the top floor...
     我们进了电梯，很快到了顶层。
  2. The cabs sailed past.
     出租车疾驰而过。
• See also:sailing
• PHRASE 启航;开船
  When a shipsets sail, it leaves a port.
  1. He loaded his vessel with another cargo and set sail...
     他给自己的船装上另一批货后便启航了。
  2. Christopher Columbus set sail for the New World in the Santa Maria.
     克里斯托弗·哥伦布从圣玛丽亚启航前往新大陆。
• PHRASE 坐帆船;乘帆船
  If you cross the seaunder sail, you cross it in a ship that has sails rather than an engine.
  1. ...the challenge and fun of going to sea under sail.
     扬帆出海的挑战和乐趣
  2. ...a big ship under sail.
     扬帆航行的大船
• tosail close to the wind→ see:wind

双语例句

• The ship's sails bellied in the wind.
  船帆在风中鼓得大大的。
• Some of her masts were already broken, and her sails lost.
  她的一些桅杆已经损坏了，帆已经不见了。
• Here's all the appendages and sails I have to trim and sand today!
  这里的所有附件和帆，我要修剪和砂今天！
• The friend is a maritime sail, there are sails, it will not be lonely to be maritime.
  朋友是海上的帆，有了帆，海上才不会寂寞。
• She sails her own yacht.
  她驾驶自己的游艇。
• Once outside the inner breakwater, we began to unfurl all the sails.
  一驶出内防波堤，我们就扬起了所有的船帆。
• For nearly two hundred miles she sailed on, her sails hard with ice
  它在船帆硬邦邦地结满了冰的情况下连续航行了将近200英里。
• Lily had the doomed sense of the castaway who has signalled in vain to fleeing sails.
  丽莉完全明白自己现在已变成一名被丢在荒岛上徒然向驶去的帆船呼救的遗弃者了。
• We hoisted the sails.
  我们升起了帆。
• The captain ordered all sails lowered so the ship could ride out the storm.
  船长命令把所有的帆放下以便船只安全渡过暴风雨。