- 1雙體船
A catamaran is a boat with two hulls — two long bodies in the water — held apart by a deck. Two hulls make it hard to tip over, so it can be fast and feel steady. The dictionary picture is often a sailing boat, and that is still a true use. Though actually, plenty of modern catamarans have engines; ferry companies love them, and holiday ads call almost any twin-hull boat a catamaran. A boat with three hulls is a , not a catamaran. The first ones, in South India, were logs tied together: not the sleek boats on . In English today the meaning has narrowed to that twin-hull craft, not just any raft.
組成From Tamil kaṭṭumaram: kaṭṭu, “to tie,” + maram, “tree, wood.”
同家族的字
- trimaranthe three-hull boat, named on the same pattern
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。
catamarannoun/ˌkæ.tə.məˈɹæn/
- 1
A twin-hulled ship or boat.
- Swift over the seas the vessel drives; Madras appears in sight. The first object catching the eye, upon the anchor being cast, was an Indian upon his catamaran, who, making a sudden motion, sprung to the side of the ship, grappled there for a moment, and the next was on the deck.
- 2
obsoleterareA quarrelsome woman; a scold.
- She meddles with my prescriptions for your wife; she doctors the infant in private: you'll never have a quiet house or a quiet wife as long as that old Catamaran is here.
- 3
obsoleteA raft of three pieces of wood lashed together, the middle piece being longer than the others, and serving as a keel on which the rower squats while paddling.
- Three or four strange-looking things now came close to our boat, which I understood were called ‘catamarans’, consisting of nothing more than two or three large trees, the trunk part only strongly lashed together, upon which sat two men nearly in a state of nature […] .
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obsoleteAn old kind of fireship.
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。