| 词汇 | aground |
| 释义 | aground adjective[ after verb ] uk /əˈɡraʊnd/ us /əˈɡraʊnd/ If a boat or ship is aground, it is unable to move because it is touching ground or in a place where there is very little water: （船只）搁浅（的） The ship is currently aground off the Brittany coast.目前，这条船搁浅在布列塔尼沿海水域。 Terms for location & direction used at sea abaft adrift afloat aft amidships ashore astern cast cast someone adriftidiom deck fore inshore keep afloat longshore offshore onshore out overboard shore agroundadverbukus The oil tanker ran/went aground on a mud bank in thick fog. aground | American Dictionaryaground adverb[ not gradable ] us/əˈɡrɑʊnd/ touching the ground below the water: The tanker ran aground and leaked 11 million gallons of crude oil. Note:Used to describe a ship that has become stuck in the water. Examples of agroundaground But, first, the river had to be ascended, with a constant danger of going aground. More generally, the explanatory efforts ran aground on their selective identification of the effects of tort law in identifying its point or purpose. But when the ship backed off the beach at 2000 hr, she swung and went aground broadside to the beach. She ran aground in 1916 and was abandoned. For a number of them this was not a happy situation, and it created difficulties on which more than a few ran aground. For the theist, petitionary prayer ran aground on what we might call the paradox of perfection. Rather, their enterprise, like that of the other sciences, runs aground on the shoals of epistemology. Secondly, running ships aground for on-site dismantling must be regarded as unacceptable. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English The tanker ran aground and all that oil was vented into the sea and blown on to the land. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Only recently a large oil tanker went off course and ran aground quite near to the gas tanker's proposed mooring site. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Twelve vessels sank or ran aground here during a severe storm. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English However, it is clear that the ship has run aground. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There were already half a dozen ships up there unsuitable for the purpose; and they are all aground. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The vessel ran aground at seven minutes past 8, and she was refloated within three hours. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Approved shipping routes would make it less likely for ships to collide with each other, run aground or get into other difficulties. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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