A battleship is the largest kind of fighting ship from the age of big guns: a huge steel warship with very heavy armour and the largest guns a navy could put afloat.

A battleship is the largest kind of fighting ship from the age of big gunsbattleship 戰艦是大砲時代裡最大型的作戰艦艇 a huge steel warship with very heavy armour and the largest guns a navy could put afloat是一種裝甲極厚、載著海軍所能裝上船的最大口徑火砲的巨大鋼鐵軍艦

The name is a shortening of the older phrase line-of-battle ship — the ships that lined up to fight in a “line of battle.” Battleships were the kings of the sea from the late 1800s until the Second World War, when aircraft carriers took over; navies hardly use them now.

The name is a shortening of the older phrase line-of-battle ship這個字是舊詞 line-of-battle ship 的簡稱 the ships that lined up to fight in a "line of battle."意思是排成一列作戰的船艦 Battleships were the kings of the sea from the late 1800s until the Second World War戰艦從十九世紀末到第二次世界大戰之前一直是海上霸主 when aircraft carriers took over之後航空母艦取而代之 navies hardly use them now現在各國海軍幾乎不再使用戰艦

People stretch the word for anything huge and heavily built, and there is a famous guessing game named after it.

People stretch the word for anything huge and heavily built人們也會把這個字用來形容任何龐大、造得很堅固的東西 and there is a famous guessing game named after it還有一個以此命名的知名猜謎遊戲

Though actually, not every warship is a battleship: a destroyer, a frigate, or a submarine is a different, usually smaller, kind of ship.

Though actually不過事實上 not every warship is a battleship不是每艘軍艦都是戰艦 a destroyer, a frigate, or a submarine is a different, usually smaller, kind of ship驅逐艦、巡防艦、潛艦是不同的、通常也比較小型的艦艇