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n. 双体船, 筏

  1. In the strong breeze the catamaran skimmed over the water, keeping abreast of the motorlaunch.
    在强风中那艘双身船掠过海水,与那艘机动小艇齐头并进。
  2. This programme tells the story of the design, the problems, and the eventual loss of Pete Goss's catamaran.
    数次的试航中,他们遇到不同的困难,虽然菲利浦斯队号在最后的试航中遇上风暴沉没,但这次的经验却令他们有另一番的体会。
  3. In the strong breeze the catamaran skimmed over the water, remaining skimmed over the water, remaining abreast of the motor-launch.
    借着强劲的风势,小筏掠过水面,与汽艇并肩而前。


catamaran
[ noun ]
a sailboat with two parallel hulls held together by single deck
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Catamaran \Cat`a*ma*ran"\, n. [The native East Indian name.]
1. A kind of raft or float, consisting of two or more logs or
pieces of wood lashed together, and moved by paddles or
sail; -- used as a surf boat and for other purposes on the
coasts of the East and West Indies and South America.
Modified forms are much used in the lumber regions of
North America, and at life-saving stations.

2. Any vessel with twin hulls, whether propelled by sails or
by steam; esp., one of a class of double-hulled pleasure
boats remarkable for speed.

3. A kind of fire raft or torpedo bat.

The incendiary rafts prepared by Sir Sidney Smith
for destroying the French flotilla at Boulogne,
1804, were called catamarans. --Knight.

4. A quarrelsome woman; a scold. [Colloq.]
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  1. They claim that Conner's catamaran was legal and that the New Zealanders are going to court to get a prize they could not win in the water.
  2. The ruling also cleared the way for the San Diego club to use its controversial two-hulled catamaran in defense of the title it reclaimed for the United States in 1987.
  3. The Supreme Court's Appellate Division reversed a lower court ruling April 7 that stripped San Diego of yacht racing's most coveted prize for using a catamaran, or two-hull vessel, instead of a single-hull boat in winning a 1988 match.
  4. Johnson will appear with fellow actor Kurt Russell in the Offshore Professional Tour race with Johnson driving and Russell navigating their three-man, 50-foot catamaran in the 144-mile race.
  5. A New York state appeals court declared the San Diego Yacht Club the winner of the 1988 America's Cup, reversing an earlier decision that the club had unfairly won the sailing competition by using a catamaran.
  6. The decision stems from charges made by challenger New Zealand Mercury Bay Boating Club that San Diego Yacht Club, which is defending the cup, must compete with a boat "like or similar" to Mercury Bay's 90-foot monohull catamaran.
  7. Fay asked the judge to find San Diego in contempt for preparing to sail such a vessel but she refused to bar the catamaran's use.
  8. Collisions are a sensitive subject aboard ENZA. A year ago the catamaran's first record attempt was abandoned after it hit a submerged object.
  9. This justice was asked to rule on the legality of a catamaran prior to the race that led to the forfeiture, but she declined to do so.
  10. They reported they covered up to 100 miles a day, sailing in a yellow catamaran.
  11. But Conner instead decided to use a catamaran.
  12. He and his wife rigged their two canoes into a catamaran and paddled 2,300 miles across the Caribbean, island-hopping from the Bahamas to the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and the West Indies. They entered South America in Venezuela's Orinoco River.
  13. So everything is OK." He is one of four windsurfers who will take four-hour shirts sailing across the Atlantic while a crew of five keeps an eye on them from the catamaran.
  14. The San Diego club's twinhull catamaran was 60 feet long.
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