battleship
英 ['b?t(?)l??p]
美 ['b?tl??p]
英文詞源
- battleship (n.)
- 1794, shortened from line-of-battle ship (1705), one large enough to take part in a main attack (formerly one of 74-plus guns); from battle (n.) + ship (n.). Later in U.S. Navy in reference to a class of ships that carried guns of the largest size. The last was decommissioned in 2006. Battleship-gray as a color is attested from 1916. Fighter and bomber airplanes in World War I newspaper articles were sometimes called battleplanes, but it did not catch on.
雙語例句
- 1. The little boy enjoys making battleship models.
- 這個小男孩喜歡做戰艦模型.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 2. A new battleship was launched from a shipyard.
- 一艘新戰艦從船塢下水.
來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》
- 3. They moved two destroyers into the area to counter the threat from the enemy battleship.
- 他們開了兩艘驅逐艦進入這個地區,來反擊敵人戰艦的威脅.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 4. A British battleship, which had been damaged severely in the battle of Crete, came limping into Pearl Harbor.
- 一艘在克里特島戰役中嚴重受損的英國戰艦艱難緩慢地駛進珍珠港。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. Later air reconnaissance showed that the battleship was heavily damaged.
- 事后,空中偵察表明,該戰列艦受傷頗重.
來自辭典例句