| 单词 | fleet |
| 释义 | fleetWord family adverbfleetlyfleetinglynounfleetnessfleetFleet Streetadjectivefleetfootedfleeting Water fleet1 /fliːt/ ●●○ noun [countableC] 1 TTWa group of ships, or all the ships in a navy 船队；舰队 the US seventh fleet 美国第七舰队 2 GROUP OF THINGSa group of vehicles that are controlled by one company 〔某家公司管理的〕车队 fleet of a fleet of taxis 出租车队 Examples from the Corpus fleet• A year's preparation may have gone into the assembling of a fleet of warships and transport vessels.• A fleet of more than 20 ambulances took the victims - believed to include several children - to hospital.• Since then his fleet has swelled from 28 to 125, advertising products as disparate as detergent, pharmaceuticals and fans.• We have the largest fleet of trucks in the state.• The defect is said to be the first of its kind in Britain's fleet of nuclear-powered submarines.• There are unconfirmed reports that the seventh fleet is moving into the area.• The almighty dollar can rejuvenate the fleet of just about any airline.• The ban was imposed on the grounds that dolphins were being killed by the tuna fleet.• Transport workers are employed in all sectors of the economy, for example in manufacturing firms who operate vehicle fleets. fleet2 adjectiveadj literary FAST/QUICKfast or quick 快速的，迅捷的 Atalanta was fleet of foot (=able to run quickly). 阿塔兰特跑起来很快。 Examples from the Corpus fleet• On, O joyful, be fleet. fleet of foot• Atalanta was good with a bow and fleet of foot.• Under those conditions a miner would have to be quite fleet of foot!• Forest boy, quick of rye, fleet of foot, but pale and spindly and pensive. From Longman Business Dictionary fleetfleet /fliːt/ noun [countableC] 1TRANSPORTa group of cars, buses, trucks, planes, or ships owned or controlled by one company a distributor with a fleet of 55 trucks the airline’s new fleet of Boeing 777 aircraft fleet car insurance 2TRANSPORTa group of ships or boats sailing together a fleet of fishing vessels Old English fleot “ship”, from fleotan; → FLEETING fleet2 (1500-1600) Probably from fleet “to go quickly”; → FLEETING |
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