网站首页  词典首页

请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 becalmed
释义
Examples from literature
  • The course now lay from point to point, in order to avoid being becalmed within the indentations of the coast.
  • The day passed without any change in the positions of the vessels, for they still lay becalmed.
  • They were often becalmed and took months to cross the ocean.
  • We mustn't show more lights than we can help, when becalmed at night so near the land.
  • What if we should be becalmed?

Examplesofbecalmed

becalmed
There will be the false dawns to reflect upon and the many times of beingbecalmed.
From theCambridge English Corpus
However, academic sociology has remained somewhatbecalmed, one might almost say oblivious to these new currents.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Unfortunately, when they are lost, the economy and the country are likely to bebecalmedand in a fog of misapprehension and misunderstanding.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Now his career is stuck; he is unhappy, marooned, shell-shocked andbecalmed.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Like the nineteenth century sailing ship, the deep-sea fleets seem to bebecalmed; they are certainly in the doldrums.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Unfortunately, what appears to have happened just now is that the wind has been taken out of the sails of the whole reform which has becomebecalmed.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
It is not uncommon to see thistles efficiently making their way, while other dinghys of similar design arebecalmed.
From
Wikipedia
Creatives commons iconThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
The use of oars or sweeps allowed the xebec to approach vessels who werebecalmed.
From
Wikipedia
Creatives commons iconThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
Kingsford says it was either contrary wind or they werebecalmed.
From
Wikipedia
Creatives commons iconThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
He did not intend to enter but wasbecalmed.
From
Wikipedia
Creatives commons iconThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
When a ship wasbecalmed, mastless, run aground or otherwise unable to move, a ship's boat provided a source of motive power.
From
Wikipedia
Creatives commons iconThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
The ship was also equipped with a set of 28ft m sweeps to allow her to be rowed forward ifbecalmedor demasted.
From
Wikipedia
Creatives commons iconThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
Soon after sailing she wasbecalmedand carried southwards by a freak seventy-mile-a-day current.
From
Wikipedia
Creatives commons iconThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
Pollutants and humidity were confined to ground level, and the air wasbecalmedand devoid of wind.
From
Wikipedia
Creatives commons iconThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
Sailing ships are sometimesbecalmedhere for many days waiting for a proper wind.
From
Wikipedia
Creatives commons iconThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/becalmed##
随便看

 

英汉词典包含213609条英汉翻译词条,涵盖了常用英语单词及词组短语的翻译及用法,是英语学习的必备工具。

 

Copyright © 1999-2024 qbania.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/12/28 11:07:07