| 词汇 | caravan |
| 释义 | caravan noun[ C ] uk /ˈkær.ə.væn/ us /ˈker.ə.væn/ caravannoun[C] (VEHICLE)UK(UStrailer) a wheeled vehicle for living or travelling in, especially for holidays, that contains beds and cooking equipment and can be pulled by a car（尤指度假时使用，由汽车拖曳的）宿营拖车，旅行拖车 Bastar/E+/GettyImages UK a painted wooden vehicle that is pulled by a horse and in which people live: （居住用的）大篷车，有篷马车 a gypsy caravan吉普赛人的大篷车 csfotoimages/iStock Editorial/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages Trucks, vans & caravans armoured car articulated lorry bakkie bin lorry bloodmobile camper Caterpillar track dumper JCB patrol wagon rig tender tipper tipper truck transit travel trailer trucking ute utility truck wrecker caravannoun[C] (GROUP)a group of people with vehicles or animals who travel together for safety through a dangerous area, especially across a desert on camels（尤指骑骆驼穿越沙漠的）旅行队，车队 Travellers & visitors blow-in carpool daily passenger day-tripper emmet expedition grief tourist houseguest itinerant passenger roamer rover sightseer stayer super-commuter swagman traveller tripper vacationer voyager caravan | American Dictionarycaravan noun[ C ] us/ˈkær·əˌvæn/ a group of people with vehicles or animals who travel together for safety through a dangerous area, esp. across a desert on camels Examples of caravancaravan People and cars milled about us, while posters, caravans, tents, and stalls were crammed in everywhere. She frequently stayed overnight with them, and each summer they took her on a caravan holiday. These were needed for payment of tribute - later taxation - and for the provisioning of trading caravans and war parties. The title was also used in caravans of coast-based porters, and was therefore accepted in a multi-ethnic environment, where its original meaning was lost. You're going to turn that caravan around and head back out of here. The first of these was not an ivory caravan but one of work seekers. These specialist porters provided a large part of the labour requirements of caravans travelling the central route. The goal was to improve the response to a direct-mail campaign aimed at selling caravan insurance policies. At resting places of merchant caravans, crossroads, river fords or places of annual fairs such complexes were easier to observe. Chiefs who were able to control access to the trade routes and to provide provisions to the caravans could accumulate wealth and influence. The caravan acted, in the eyes of shopkeepers, as a sign of the validation that the authorities were giving to violent actions. Yet caravans could not but depend on the areas they were passing through for shelter, water and often for food. During peak periods, experienced porters could pick and choose among the numerous caravans leaving the coast. This caravan, given the circumstances and the small quantity of stolen goods, probably consisted of a dozen or so individuals. The market for caravan labour was therefore characterized by a massive expansion in demand. 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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