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- a small vessel for travelling over water, propelled by oars, sails, or an engine舟, 小船, 帆船, 划子：
a fishing boat
渔船
as modifier a boat trip.乘船旅行。
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- a vessel of any size, especially a large one carrying passengers大客轮, 大小不等的船。
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- a gravy boat or sauce boat调味汁盆, 卤汁船形盆。
no obj.
1- travel or go in a boat for pleasure荡舟, 乘船游乐：
they boated through fjords.
他们乘船驶过峡湾。
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- with obj. and adverbial of direction transport (someone or something) in a boat用船运送, 用船渡：
they boated the timber down the lake.
他们用船沿着湖运送木料。
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- with obj.(of an angler) draw (a hooked fish) into a boat（钓鱼者）把（上钩的鱼）拉上船。
短语
be in the same boat
- informal be in the same unfortunate or difficult circumstances as others〈非正式〉在同一条船上, 患难与共。
off the boat
- informal, often offensive recently arrived from a foreign country, and by implication naive or an outsider〈非正式, 常冒犯〉刚从外国来的, 初来乍到的, 人地生疏的, 不懂异国风俗习惯的, 无在异国生活经验的：
What are you, fresh off the boat?
你是什么人, 初来乍到吧？
push the boat out
- Brit. informal be lavish in one's spending or celebrations〈英, 非正式〉挥霍, 铺张, 讲排场。
rock the boat
- informal say or do something to disturb an existing situation and upset other people〈非正式〉搅局, 捣乱。
派生词
boatful
noun （pl. -fuls）词源
Old English bāt, of Germanic origin.