afloat的意思|afloat的解释-里氏词典

afloat [ә'flәut]

a. 飘浮着的, 在海上的, 浸满水的, 在进行中的

ad. 飘浮着, 在海上, 浸满水, 在进行中

[机] 飘浮状态, 浮升状态

A ship is afloat.
一条船漂在水上。
Which do you prefer, life on land or life afloat?
你喜欢哪一种生活，陆上生活还是水上生活？
The ship was set afloat.
那艘船被飘浮起来。

afloat

[ adj ]

borne on the water; floating

<adj.all>

aimlessly drifting

<adj.all>

covered with water

<adj.all>

the main deck was afloat (or awash)

the monsoon left the whole place awash

a flooded bathroom

inundated farmlands

an overflowing tub

Afloat \A*float"\ ([.a]*fl[=o]t"), adv. & a. [Pref. a- + float.]
1. Borne on the water; floating; on board ship.

On such a full sea are we now afloat. --Shak.

2. Moving; passing from place to place; in general
circulation; as, a rumor is afloat.

3. Unfixed; moving without guide or control; adrift; as, our
affairs are all afloat.

4. Covered with water bearing floating articles; flooded; as,
the decks are afloat.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

"If you want to do it right, it's a full-time job," Rossetti said. "I was just fortunate I could work my schedule around Carl." That meant sometimes working into the early-morning hours to keep his family financially afloat.
Only exports from the heavily guarded northwestern oil fields have kept the economy afloat.
Mrs. Marcos refused to say where she gets her money, allowing only that "millions" of dollars in legal and medical bills remain unpaid and that she relies on the goodwill of friends to stay afloat.
Industry leaders are advancing the novel proposition that the generosity of bankers is to blame for keeping weak competitors afloat.
Since then the chief battle for them has been keeping the business afloat. 'We are both fanatical about civil war re-enactments,' said Litchfield, 38. The two were confident of success when they started Civil-Wardrobe.
Bank of New England Corp. has been bolstering its frail finances with U.S. Treasury money, but the bank said Thursday it does not need the funds to stay afloat.
The PaineWebber Futures Fund LP was canceled after the firm failed to raise enough money to get the fund afloat, people familiar with the fund said.
While Andreotti maintained the country's pro-American stance and firm ties to NATO, he became the first Christian Democrat premier to accept support from the Communists to keep his government afloat.
They decided to quit after being excluded from any discussions with management in recent weeks as the troubled company scrambled to keep afloat, said one of the directors, who asked not to be named.
When we re-meet Ann/Mayan (who has assumed her Egyptian name) she is living in a drab New York City apartment, struggling to keep afloat in medical school and doing the rounds as a trainee at a local hospital.
He said Monoclonal possibly could stay afloat because of what he described as "fair" cash reserves, but that the company might become a takeover target.
L.J. Hooker Corp.'s reorganization under federal bankruptcy laws and an influx of credit should keep the company's stores stocked and projects afloat, the new manager of the company says.
Press Association, the domestic news agency, said the helicopter landed upright and stayed afloat with the occupants remaining inside, but it said weather conditions were rough.
Hansen said the ship was apparently saved from sinking by new pumps brought by a Soviet tugboat and a Norwegian helicopter after others broke down. "It looks like there is enough new pumping equipment aboard to keep it afloat," he said.
Roberts said the criticism has resurfaced since his father asked followers to sell unneeded valuables to help raise $11 million by May 6 to keep his 41-year-old ministry afloat.
Even after the boom went bust, Pointeau dutifully renewed his investor's visa each year and kept his motel afloat with hard work and modestly successful outside business ventures.
Last year, Rupiper was struggling to keep afloat.
These companies have helped cash-starved Cannon stay afloat through loans and investments.
But the Depression dashed his hopes; he was called back to Lowell a year short of graduation to help with the struggle to keep Tsongas Cleaners afloat.
After twice extending the loan and pouring in another $10 million to keep TVX afloat, Salomon in March abandoned attempts to sell the junk bonds.
The Salvation Army contends that payment of a wage could doom the social service centers, which are kept financially afloat by a network of thrift shops they run across the country.
However, struggling to keep the nation whole and the economy afloat, President Mikhail S. Gorbachev on Thursday managed to neutralize the Russian republic's attempt to take control of its own vast natural resources.
Often as not, he said, the problem is traced to a failing company's efforts to stay afloat.
A Greek freighter's 28-member crew worked to keep the 600-foot ship afloat while it headed slowly to Hawaii, the Coast Guard said.
What emerges is a picture of a Pap-screening industry kept afloat by overworked, undersupervised, poorly paid technicians.
Instead state benefits are being used as subsidies for inefficient firms dependent on low-wage workers to keep them afloat. Blaming the workers is all too easy.
Many of Richards Butler's clients would be willing to leave funds in BCCI to assist a rescue plan to keep it afloat, he added.
When the J.P. Morgan bank recently incurred a huge loss in order to reserve 100% against its non-trade-related Third World loans, the procession of Treasury schemes designed to keep the debt afloat with more bank lending came to an end.
But the witness also agreed that in a grounding, the captain's first instinct would be to get his ship afloat.
The government already has pumped in $1.2 billion just to keep it afloat, he said.

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