- 1翻船；（船）翻覆
If a boat capsizes, it turns over in the water: the bottom comes up and the people or goods go in. You can also capsize a boat, which means you make it turn over, by accident or on purpose. People say this most about small boats — a canoe, a boat, a little sailing boat in a sudden wind. A very big ship that turns over is more often said to roll over or sink; capsize is not wrong, but it can sound a bit small for a huge ship. Though actually, news writers do use it for fishing boats and ferries, so you will meet it there. It is a little bit sea-talk, but anyone who has sat in a canoe knows the feeling. There is a noun too: a capsize is the event of turning over.
組成English has used the word since 1788. The origin is unknown. It may be related to Spanish chapuzar, “to sink by the head.”
原始詞典資料4 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。
capsizeverb/ˈkæpsaɪz/
- 1
nauticaltransportTo overturn.
- Baby, I think I'm capsizing / The waves are rising and rising
- 2
nauticaltransportTo cause (a ship) to overturn.
- But what if carrying sail capsize the boat?
- 3
To deform under stress.
- There are even cases where a totally different knot may result when carelessly pulled. Tie the Granny Knot around any object and pull one end, and it will capsize into Two Half Hitches.
capsizenoun/ˈkæpsaɪz/
- 1
The act of, or occurrence of capsizing or overturning.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。