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词汇 sailor
释义 sailor
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈseɪ.lər/ us /ˈseɪ.lɚ/
B1
a person who works on a ship, especially one who is not an officer水手,船员
B1
a person who often takes part in the sport of using boats with sails帆船运动员
 a good/bad sailor
someone who is not/often ill when travelling by boat: 不晕船/晕船者
I wasn't a good sailor at the best of times and the sea was very choppy that day.
a shipwrecked sailor遭遇海难的水手
He was a young sailor on his first sea voyage.他第一次出海航行时还是个年轻的水手。
A sailor threw a rope ashore and we tied the boat to a post.一个水手将一条缆绳扔到岸上,于是我们把船拴到了一根柱子上。
They bombed two navy gunboats, killing 12 sailors.
The race attracts top-class sailors from around the world.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

People who work on boats & ships
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bargeman
boatman
cabin crew
corsair
crew
crew member
deckhand
docker
freighter
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longshoreman
mariner
pilot
punter
run away to seaidiom
sea dog
shipmate
stevedore

sailor | American Dictionary


sailor
noun[ C ]
us/ˈseɪ·lər/
a person who operates or works on a boat or ship, or a person in the navy who is not an officer:
My dad is a sailor.

Examples of sailor


sailor
Sightings of man-like creatures that continued to be reported, by both sailors and fishermen, fuelled the many folk legends that developed.
The past seemed to offer inspiration and guidance for a new generation of soldiers and sailors, and useful propaganda for those who agitated for war.
Let us come back to the black sailors who initially introduced this music, and whose role in helping forge this cosmopolitan sensibility cannot be underestimated.
The population increased when shipwrecked sailors and castaways arrived; some of them stayed behind and added to the permanent population.
The sailors wore their wealth conspicuously and clearly enjoyed a strong sense of fraternity.
The 'sailor's waltz', a piece based on major triads, immediately springs to mind.
Little wonder that the sailors again tried to correlate her behaviour with their chance of survival.
In this respect, foreign sailors were most commonly identified as opposition supporters.
However, the sailors attending matches were not a homogeneous group.
Furthermore, even sailors who held some affection for the home team would at times add their opposition.
They had the luxury of a large pool of sailors with extensive experiences who were readily available to take on the risky work.
The sailors represented a complex set of loyalties.
He finally reported that sailors had attempted to correlate the direction in which the monster had disappeared into the waves with their chances of survival.
Legends that reflect such observations existed among sailors and fishermen around the world.
They were actually sailors under the age of 20.
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Collocations withsailor


sailor

These are words often used in combination with sailor.

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avid sailor
He is an avidsailor and has owned several boats over the years.
From
Wikipedia

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drunken sailor
I retorted that if he believed that he was suffering from the mad hallucinations of a drunkensailor.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
experienced sailor
Maritime law may, for example, recognize the most experienced sailor as the captain.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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