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 ferry ['fɛrɪ]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 渡船, 渡口

[法] 摆渡营业权, 轮渡


  1. We ferried the river on a small boat.
    我们用小船渡过那条河。
  2. He went down to the ferry but found the boat on the other side.
    他到了渡口,却发现渡船在对岸。
  3. We crossed the river by ferry.
    我们坐渡船过了河。


ferry
ferried
[ noun ]
  1. a boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule

  2. <noun.artifact>
  3. transport by boat or aircraft

  4. <noun.act>
[ verb ]
  1. transport from one place to another

  2. <verb.motion>
  3. transport by ferry

  4. <verb.motion>
  5. travel by ferry

  6. <verb.motion>


Ferry \Fer"ry\ (f[e^]r"r[y^]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ferried}
(-r[i^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Ferrying}.] [OE. ferien to
convey, AS. ferian, from faran to go; akin to Icel. ferja to
ferry, Goth. farjan to sail. See {Fare}.]
1. To carry or transport over a river, strait, or other
narrow water, in a boat.

2. To convey back and forth regularly between two points in a
vehicle; as, part of her day was spent ferrying the kids
to and from school.
[PJC]


Ferry \Fer"ry\, v. i.
To pass over water in a boat or by a ferry.

They ferry over this Lethean sound
Both to and fro. --Milton.


Ferry \Fer"ry\, n.; pl. {Ferries}. [OE. feri; akin to Icel.
ferja, Sw. f["a]rja, Dan. f[ae]rge, G. f["a]hre. See {Ferry},
v. t.]
1. A place where persons or things are carried across a
river, arm of the sea, etc., in a ferryboat.

It can pass the ferry backward into light. --Milton.

To row me o'er the ferry. --Campbell.

2. A vessel in which passengers and goods are conveyed over
narrow waters; a ferryboat; a wherry.

3. A franchise or right to maintain a vessel for carrying
passengers and freight across a river, bay, etc., charging
tolls.

{Ferry bridge}, a ferryboat adapted in its structure for the
transfer of railroad trains across a river or bay.

{Ferry railway}. See under {Railway}.

  1. Mr Francois Leclercq, CTL managing director, said Germany might be added but it was proving difficult to obtain attractive rates for German destinations. Journey times should be about half those by road and much less than the time taken by rail and ferry.
  2. My hosts assured me I could jump on the mid-afternoon ferry to Hong Kong from the Shekou terminal at the western end of Shenzhen.
  3. Aage Danielsen, a Norwegian rescue vessel captain, said the missing passengers were believed still on the ferry.
  4. The ferry was the same type as the Herald of Free Enterprise which capsized off Zeebrugge in March 1987, with the loss of 189 lives.
  5. Rosado Echanove said it appeared the ferry would sink.
  6. Despite such growth, the new ferry operations haven't yet attracted a huge number of commuters.
  7. A total of 250 passengers were evacuated without injury from a Stena Sealink ferry in Stranraer harbour when fire broke out shortly before a planned sailing to Larne in Northern Ireland yesterday.
  8. Many subway lines and commuter tunnels were stalled or shut down; thousands walked across the Brooklyn Bridge and rush-hour ferry service began early.
  9. On Monday, 700 Egyptian refugees arrived in the port of Suez on board the Egyptian ferry el-Tor that sailed from Aqaba.
  10. Off the coast of Israel, the search was called off for the last of 21 bodies of U.S. troops killed in the sinking Saturday of an Israeli ferry.
  11. Masters Bruce Devereux and Howard Wilson, and their crews, were taken to a ferry that left here late Friday, Mike Harpold of the INS said.
  12. The unlikely pair has drawn crowds at each of the four stops on the ferry's 12-mile-long route in the beautiful and remote fiord south of the town of Aalesund.
  13. Two Cypriot-flagged ferry boats that occasionally have been running the gantlet of Syrian fire to transport Christians from Jounieh and Byblos to Larnaca, Cyprus, suspended their shuttles again Thursday.
  14. We feared that the weather would set in, the ferry would not sail and we would be stuck on the island.
  15. The order came nine days after Sulpicio's Dona Marilyn ferry sank during a typhoon with about 500 people aboard.
  16. Residents of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, split over limiting the tourism that supports their economies, squared off at a public hearing over the rejection of a direct ferry link between Boston and the resort islands.
  17. I want to create jobs in middle America." A car ferry undergoing repairs hit a dock Friday and tipped over, temporarily trapping 21 crewmen and workers, but no injuries were reported, police said.
  18. Even more interesting is Iso Mustasaari, a 15-minute ferry ride from central Helsinki and home to an odd assortment of attractive old buildings that includes portions of an 18th-century fort built by the Swedes.
  19. The report also showed refugees in Swedish buses that were loaded onto a ferry.
  20. Police said Aoun's gunners on a mountain ridge overlooking the Mediterranean fired two warning shots from a 155mm howitzer at the Victory I ferry as it approached the port of Jounieh on Friday morning.
  21. Los Ebanos International Ferry is the only hand-pulled ferry used at any U.S. port of entry.
  22. "He used to take us to an amusement park in Oakland," she recalls. "We went to San Francisco with him when we were older, taking the train, the ferry boat and the cable cars.
  23. More than 400 people drowned Aug. 6 when a ferry crossing the river at Katihar, also in Bihar state, capsized after hitting a sand bar.
  24. The whale kept its distance but Nystoeyl said, "She'll get used to it." The crew worries that Hanna might grow bored with the ferry and jilt the boat for a flock of real killer whales.
  25. If Mr. Dukakis sought to improve sealift by buying another four or five ships a year to ferry troops, that would cost about $1 billion annually.
  26. They will be taken to Mogadishu for the moment." The U.N. Development Program hired three light aircraft to ferry the foreigners from Hargeisa, 600 miles north of Mogadishu, to Garowe.
  27. In addition to the tug, two Greek navy vessels, coast guard patrol boats, a passenger ferry and several pleasure craft picked up survivors, Merchant Marine Ministry officials said.
  28. The culprits are decades of rust and the daily rumblings of more than 100,000 cars and 420 subway trains that ferry commuters over the East River between the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn and the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
  29. The boats, hired by the city of Isle of Palms, were to ferry people all day.
  30. Christians were also fleeing by ferry for the east Mediterranean island of Cyprus, 100 miles to the northwest.
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