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词汇 raft
释义 raft
noun
uk /rɑːft/ us /ræft/

raftnoun (FLOATING STRUCTURE)


[ C ]
a flat floating structure for travelling across water, often made of pieces of wood tied roughly together and moved along with a paddle (= pole with a flat end): 筏子;木筏,木排
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。
 
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[ C ]
a fixed, flat floating structure that swimmers can use to land on or dive from(游泳、跳水的)浮台
 
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[ C ]
a small rubber or plastic boat that can be filled with air: 充气筏,橡皮艇
a rubber raft橡皮艇
an inflatable raft充气筏
 
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Boats & sailing craft
amphibious
cabin cruiser
canoe
coracle
cutter
dhow
dinghy
dragon boat
flatboat
houseboat
inflatable
kayak
ketch
lifeboat
punt
rubber dinghy
sloop
sunfish
surfboat
tall ship

raftnoun (MANY)


[ Cusually singular ]
a large number or range; a lot: 许多,大量
a raft of data大量资料
We have designed a whole raft of measures to improve the transport system.我们已经制定了一整套措施来完善交通系统。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Masses and large amounts of things
accumulation
any number of thingsidiom
armload
backlog
blood clot
flood
foam
hyper-concentration
inundation
lion
many
pile
sight
stack
the lion's shareidiom
wadge
wave after/upon waveidiom
wedge
welter
wodge
raft
verb[ I or T ]
uk /rɑːft/ us /ræft/
to travel or transport something on a raft: 乘坐筏子(渡河);用筏子运送
They rafted their supplies down the river.他们用筏子把生活用品运到河的下游。
We rafted through the rapids.我们乘筏子渡过了那处急流。
Have you ever been white water rafting?你玩过急流漂流吗?
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Sailing & boating
age of sail
aweigh
bargee
bargeman
bear away
maritime
ocean-going
outsail
passage
portage
rafter
rafting
sail
sailing
sea legs
seafaring
seamanship
seaworthy
shipboard
under sailidiom

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Movement on or through water

raft | American Dictionary


raft
noun[ C ]
us/ræft/

raftnoun[C] (FLOATING STRUCTURE)


a flat, floating structure made of pieces of wood tied together, often attached to the bottom of a river or lake for use when swimming
A raft is also a small rubber or plastic boat that can be filled with air.

raftnoun[C] (A LOT)


a large number or collection; a lot:
We’ve identified a whole raft of problems affecting traffic flow.

raft | Business English


raft
noun[ C ]
uk /rɑːft/ us /ræft/
 a raft of sth
a large amount or number of something:
His plan is to encourage more personal investment with a raft of tax breaks.
Congress is working to complete a raft of spending measures for the new fiscal year.
A whole raft of new guidelines and legislation is being introduced.

Examples of raft


raft
Initially 40 egg rafts were reared individually in small bowls which contained approximately 400 mis of distilled water.
In sheltered waters and where sufficient floating loads were available, they were made up into long narrow rafts and towed by tugs.
As noted above, biochemical studies of rafts have relied heavily on the use of detergent-based membrane fractionation procedures carried out at low temperatures.
Detergent-resistant membranes should not be identified with membrane rafts.
Molecular dynamics and interactions for creation of stimulation-induced stabilized rafts from small unstable steady-state rafts.
Thus, s o m e signal transduction units can be preassembled in lipid rafts of quiescent cells, allowing r a p i d and efficient signal initiation upon activation.
However, whereas upward transport cannot be ruled out for the small peridotite blocks, it is considered unlikely that a basaltic magma could have transported the large (120 m diameter) rafts.
Fluorescence-based evaluation of the partitioning of lipids and lipidated peptides into liquid-ordered lipid microdomains: a model for molecular partitioning into 'lipid rafts'.
Amphibians occurred on six rafts.
The recognition of the involvement of lipid rafts in various infectious and non-infectious pathologies will certainly offer, in the near future, new possibilites for therapeutic interventions.
A simplified method for the preparation of detergent-free lipid rafts.
In addition to a demonstrated role in signal transduction within the host cell, lipid rafts serve as portals of entry for various pathogens, including viruses, bacteria and their toxins.
The state of lipid rafts: from model membranes to cells.
I do not wish to make a point about rafts, but to return to canoes.
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Inflatable life rafts saved the complete crews—57 men—of four of the vessels that were lost.
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Collocations withraft


raft

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floating raft
The duck inn is a floating raft with glass windows and painted walls.
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inflatable raft
There is no doubt that the inflatableraft is in many cases an improvement on the lifeboat.
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makeshift raft
This can be done by construction of a makeshiftraft or receiving outside help from the owner of a boat.
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