- 1蓋倫帆船；（西班牙）大帆船
A galleon was a large sailing ship, used especially by Spain from the 1400s to the 1600s. It was high-sided, with several decks and a lot of sail, built to carry cargo — often silver — and also to fight. English speakers now meet the word in history, museums, and pirate stories more than at sea; nobody builds working galleons as everyday ships. The word spread around the Mediterranean from about the 12th century and meant different ships in different ports before it settled on this big Spanish sailing type. It is not a galley (a ship moved with oars) and not a gallon (a measure of liquid), though galleon did start as a "bigger" relative of galley.
組成From Middle French galion or Spanish galeón. Originally an augmentative — a "bigger" form — of a Romance word related to galley. The word spread around the Mediterranean from the 12th century, taking on different meanings by place and time.
同家族的字
- galleygalleon began as a bigger kind of galley; the designs later went different ways
原始詞典資料1 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。
galleonnoun/ˈɡæ.li.ən/
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A large, three-masted, square rigged sailing ship with at least two decks.
- The next day he returned to camp with the balance of his ingots, and when they were stored on board the cruiser Captain Dufranne said he felt like the commander of an old-time Spanish galleon returning from the treasure cities of the Aztecs. “I don’t know what minute my crew will cut my throat, and take over the ship,” he added.
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