| 词汇 | floated |
| 释义 | floated past simple and past participle offloat float verb uk /fləʊt/ us /floʊt/ floatverb (NOT SINK)B1[ I ] to stay on the surface of a liquid and not sink: 漂浮 An empty bottle will float.空瓶子能浮起来。 float inYou can float very easily in the Dead Sea because it's so salty. float onLily pads float on the surface of the pond. We lashed together anything that would float to make a raft.我们把所有能漂浮的东西都捆绑在一起来做一个筏子。 The body hit the water, floated for a few seconds, and then sank to the bottom of the river. In science we learned about density, and why oil floats on water. In the pool, several ladies were floating on their backs, like starfish, with their arms and legs stretched out. "My rubber duck won't float any more!" "Oh dear - it's all full of water, that's why." Staying afloat, capsizing & sinking bail out buoy buoyancy buoyant buoyantly capsize float floatation flotation founder ground kickboard outrigger refloat ride run aground/ashoreidiom scupper scuttle sunken waterlogged floatverb (MOVE)B1[ I or T, usually+ adv/prep ] to (cause to) move easily through, or along the surface of a liquid, or to (cause to) move easily through air: （使）漂流;（使）浮动;（使）飘动;（使）飘移 float downWe spent a lazy afternoon floating down the river. float alongIt feeds by simply floating along the water and scooping up fish. float out toHe tossed the bottle into the waves and watched it float out to sea.他把瓶子扔到浪中，看着它漂向大海。 float something on somethingThe children enjoy floating their boats on the pond in the park.孩子们喜欢把玩具船放在公园的池塘里玩。 Fluffy white clouds were floating across the sky.绒毛似的白云在天空中飘过。 figurativeThe sound of piano-playing floated out through the open window.从开着的窗户中飘出钢琴的声音。 to move slowly crawlThere'd been a bad accident on the motorway and traffic was crawling. trundleLorries trundle through the narrow lanes. creepHe crept downstairs, hardly making any noise. trudgeThey trudged wearily through the snow. strollWe spent the afternoon strolling around Budapest. ambleHe ambled over to the window. [ Iusually+ adv/prep ]literary to move smoothly and attractively: 优雅地移动，飘然移动 She sort of floats around, like a ballet dancer.她像个芭蕾舞演员，步态轻盈。 [ Iusually+ adv/prep ] to move or act without purpose: 漂泊；游荡 float around/aboutSince he lost his job, he's just floated around/about doing nothing.自从失业后，他就四处游荡，无所事事。 She stopped rowing and let the boat float with the stream.她不再划，任由小船顺流漂荡。 He floated through his exams with no problems whatsoever. From the riverbank he watched the boats float past. He let go of the string and the balloon floated off into the distance. He floats past defenders as if they weren't there. Movement on or through water buoyantly cast cast someone adriftidiom dabble dip dip in something float hydroplane outsail raft row sail slingshot smoothness surface tack wade wallow You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Movement through the air Slow and moving slowly Passive and not working floatverb (SUGGEST)[ T ] to suggest a plan or an idea to be considered: 提出，提请考虑（计划或想法） float an ideaLaura has floated the idea that we should think about expanding into Europe next year.劳拉提议，我们应该考虑明年拓展打入欧洲市场。 Suggestions & proposals about bounce something off someone can't co-sponsor co-sponsorship drop if you take my meaningidiom make noisesidiom maybe move mover nod nomination on the tableidiom proposition put ideas into someone's headidiom put someone to somethingidiom put something in put something up resubmission floatverb (CHANGE VALUE)[ I or T ] finance & economics specialized to allow the value of a country's money to change according to the value of other countries' money: （使）（货币）实现汇率自由浮动 Argentina decided to let its currency float freely against the dollar.阿根廷政府决定让其货币汇率对美元自由浮动。 Economics accommodative anti-economic anti-inflation anti-inflationary anti-recession deindustrialization double-dip gross domestic product HDI human development index industrialism inflation Keynesian liberal monetarism monetary recession retrench stagflation the public purse floatverb (BUSINESS)[ T ] to start selling shares in a business or company for the first time（公司或企业）首次发行（股票）上市 Success & failure in business administration axe bankrupt bankruptcy be running on fumesidiom belly charter dying float go belly upidiom go darkidiom go into administration go to the wallidiom growth hacker receiver shut (something) down shut up shopidiom sinking shipidiom soft launch spin something off Idiomsbe floating on air float someone's boat float someone a loan Phrasal verbfloat around Examples of floatedfloated In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. The second consisted of companies which were floated specifically to funnel lucrative government contracts on commission, or in anticipation of bank loans that never materialised. Pieces of the false keel floated to the surface, but the ship was quickly refloated and found not to be leaking. The piece of ice changed direction and floated to the firm land. The wood was cut from trees near the village, and then floated down river to the village site. He was sitting in the metal desk chair from the plant office and the chair floated. The ideas generally floated in 1946 at the defence science conference had at last come to fruition. On the opposite shore, however, the water was 'like indigo and oil slick floated on the surface'. At the late stage, the effect was diminished and the bubble front floated in its asymptotic velocity. Humans have created their own freedom as cultural cooperativists, meaning that the structure of human freedom has long since floated free of its biological base. Early in the eighth month of 1852, a large number of dead fish floated to the surface of the inlet near the construction site. Solutions are ideas floated by specialists in narrow policy communities looking for a problem to solve. With this sequence of assembly steps, the substructure will be floated, as opposed to the wing panels being floated. He also floated the idea of giving tenants of private houses the same right to buy as might be given to council tenants. All is floated, that is, displaced from the noun phrase the phonologists, adjacent to which it appears in the canonical (2). The biggest growth has been in the number of private nursery chains, some of which have been floated on the stock market. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. 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