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- a flat buoyant structure of timber or other materials fastened together, used as a boat or floating platform木排, 木筏; 筏子; 浮台。
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- a small inflatable rubber or plastic boat, especially one for use in emergencies（橡皮或塑料）救生艇, 橡皮船。
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- a floating mass of fallen trees, vegetation, ice, or other material（树木、草木或冰块等一堆）漂浮物。
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- a dense flock of swimming birds or mammals大群游动的水鸟（或哺乳动物）：
great rafts of cormorants, often 5,000 strong.
通常有5,000多只成群结队的鸬鹚。
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- a layer of reinforced concrete forming the foundation of a building浮筏基础, 格床基础。
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- no obj., with adverbial of direction travel on or as if on a raft乘筏行进：
I have rafted along the Rio Grande.
我已乘筏游览了格兰德河。
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- with obj. and adverbial of direction transport on a raft用筏子运送：
the stores were rafted ashore.
补给品用筏子运上岸。
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- (of an ice floe) be driven on top of or underneath another floe（浮冰）随浮冰流淌。
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- with obj. and adverbial of direction transport (timber) on water in the form of a raft筏流, 筏运（木材）。
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- with obj. bring or fasten together (a number of boats or other objects) side by side将（船或其他物体）并排连为一体。
词源
late Middle English （in the sense 'beam, rafter'）： from Old Norse raptr 'rafter'. The verb dates from the late 17th cent.