- 1戰艦（海軍更精確的說法是「戰列艦」）
A battleship is the largest kind of fighting ship from the age of big guns: a huge steel with very heavy armour and the largest guns a navy could put afloat. The name is a 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. People stretch the word for anything huge and heavily built, and there is a famous guessing game named after it. Though actually, not every is a battleship: a destroyer, a , or a submarine is a different, usually smaller, kind of ship.
From the word’s history
Shortened from line-of-battle ship (1794); battle + ship.
由 line-of-battle ship「戰列艦」縮短而來。
組成battle + ship; shortened from line-of-battle ship (attested 1794).
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
battleshipnoun/ˈbætəlˌʃɪp/
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governmentmilitarynauticalA large capital warship displacing thousands to tens of thousands of tons, heavily armoured and armed with large-caliber guns; now obsolescent and replaced by smaller vessels with guided missiles.
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literaturemediapublishingA starship of comparable role.
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archaicgovernmentmilitarynauticalA ship of the line.
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A non-functional rocket stage, used for configuration and integration tests.
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A guessing game played on grid paper or a gameboard inspired by it.
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