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单词 steamboat
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Definition of steamboat in English:

steamboat

nounˈstiːmbəʊtˈstimˌboʊt
  • A boat that is propelled by a steam engine, especially (in the US) a paddle-wheel craft of a type used on rivers in the 19th century.

    (尤指19世纪在美国河流中采用浆叶轮推进的)汽船

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The river steamboats are designed in 19th century format with stylish furnishings - an impressive mirrored and brass staircase and a lounge with a two-storied glass rear wall for a glimpse of the giant paddlewheel.
    • Amateur model boat builders, young and old, will be entering their vessels into a variety of classes including warships, steamboats and sailing boats.
    • A steamboat is a boat propelled by steam, but a riverboat is not a boat propelled by a river.
    • The novel, which was written by Frank Yerby, opens with Fox being thrown off a steamboat on the Mississippi River and ends with the destruction of his plantation, Harrow.
    • Warehouses and wharves proliferated, and steamboats and sailing vessels crowded the riverfront.
    • The sternwheel steamboat Delta Queen is paddling slowly along the Tennessee River, the early morning sun burning off wispy fog rising from a placid surface.
    • During this period, Americans were most likely to have prolonged encounters with strangers when they were at urban business hotels, rural resorts, or on steamboats or sailing ships.
    • Returning to America, Fulton continued developing steamboats and naval weapons until his death.
    • After the Supreme Court decision, new companies immediately began to operate more up-to-date steamboats on the Hudson.
    • Eight city slickers had come to Montana for a six-day canoe trip down river from Fort Benton, once a frontier town of steamboats and gold miners.
    • The 436-passenger paddlewheel steamboat returns to the river in a January 18 departure from its home port of New Orleans.
    • Before the Civil War, there was definitely an American river of that name, and steamboats, including showboats like the one commanded by Commodore Jackson, could navigate the river.
    • Early models of steamboats include the steam-driven paddle-wheel boat built by French nobleman Marquis Claude de Jouffroy d' Abbans and tested on the Satne River in 1783.
    • Harlem, however, was primed at the turn of the 20th century with the advent of steamboats, cars and electric trains.
    • The supply steamboats began to ferry all of them across to the west bank of the Missouri, where men of the Thirtieth Wisconsin Infantry were building a new post, Fort Rice.
    • Brown testified to helping slaves obtain free papers and then either booking them on steamboats or helping them obtain work on the river.
    • Like most contemporary Hudson River steamboats, the Albany was designed to transport passengers and light freight.
    • Inside the museum, all manner of detailed models, from submarines, steamboats and trawlers to battleships, tugs and cobles, competed for best model in the various classes.
    • At one time, over 300 paddlewheel steamboats plied the Delta.
    • Marlow continues down the river on his steamboat with a crew of several whites and about 20 to 30 blacks.

Rhymes

dreamboat

Definition of steamboat in US English:

steamboat

nounˈstimˌboʊtˈstēmˌbōt
  • A boat that is propelled by a steam engine, especially a paddle-wheel craft of a type used widely on rivers in the 19th century.

    (尤指19世纪在美国河流中采用浆叶轮推进的)汽船

    Example sentencesExamples
    • After the Supreme Court decision, new companies immediately began to operate more up-to-date steamboats on the Hudson.
    • A steamboat is a boat propelled by steam, but a riverboat is not a boat propelled by a river.
    • During this period, Americans were most likely to have prolonged encounters with strangers when they were at urban business hotels, rural resorts, or on steamboats or sailing ships.
    • Early models of steamboats include the steam-driven paddle-wheel boat built by French nobleman Marquis Claude de Jouffroy d' Abbans and tested on the Satne River in 1783.
    • Marlow continues down the river on his steamboat with a crew of several whites and about 20 to 30 blacks.
    • The 436-passenger paddlewheel steamboat returns to the river in a January 18 departure from its home port of New Orleans.
    • The sternwheel steamboat Delta Queen is paddling slowly along the Tennessee River, the early morning sun burning off wispy fog rising from a placid surface.
    • The supply steamboats began to ferry all of them across to the west bank of the Missouri, where men of the Thirtieth Wisconsin Infantry were building a new post, Fort Rice.
    • Harlem, however, was primed at the turn of the 20th century with the advent of steamboats, cars and electric trains.
    • Brown testified to helping slaves obtain free papers and then either booking them on steamboats or helping them obtain work on the river.
    • The novel, which was written by Frank Yerby, opens with Fox being thrown off a steamboat on the Mississippi River and ends with the destruction of his plantation, Harrow.
    • Like most contemporary Hudson River steamboats, the Albany was designed to transport passengers and light freight.
    • Amateur model boat builders, young and old, will be entering their vessels into a variety of classes including warships, steamboats and sailing boats.
    • At one time, over 300 paddlewheel steamboats plied the Delta.
    • Inside the museum, all manner of detailed models, from submarines, steamboats and trawlers to battleships, tugs and cobles, competed for best model in the various classes.
    • Returning to America, Fulton continued developing steamboats and naval weapons until his death.
    • The river steamboats are designed in 19th century format with stylish furnishings - an impressive mirrored and brass staircase and a lounge with a two-storied glass rear wall for a glimpse of the giant paddlewheel.
    • Before the Civil War, there was definitely an American river of that name, and steamboats, including showboats like the one commanded by Commodore Jackson, could navigate the river.
    • Warehouses and wharves proliferated, and steamboats and sailing vessels crowded the riverfront.
    • Eight city slickers had come to Montana for a six-day canoe trip down river from Fort Benton, once a frontier town of steamboats and gold miners.
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