- 1可通航的、可航行的
When a river, a canal, or a lake is navigable, ships and boats can travel on it. The water is deep enough and wide enough, and nothing in the way will stop a ship. Map makers, port news, and river workers use this word. It is a little formal; friends do not say it when they talk about a day on a boat. A thin mountain stream is not navigable. A wide, deep river usually is, at least where big boats go. Though actually, people now also call a website or a menu navigable when you can find your way around it easily. That later use is about moving through a page, not through water. The first meaning — and the one this word still carries most strongly — is about water that ships can use.
同家族的字
- navigatethe verb: to sail, or to find the way
- navigationthe work or skill of finding the way, also old name for canals
- navigatorthe person who plans the way on a ship or plane
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。
navigableadj/ˈnævɪɡəbəl/
- 1
Capable of being navigated; deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to vessels.
- Shanghai is situated on this river, about twelve miles above Woosung; and the river is navigable for steam-boats forty-seven miles higher up—to the point where it issues from the small lake on the south of the canal. Chapoo, the town taken by the British immediately before the attack upon Woosung, is on the north side of the gulf of Che-kiang, about midway between its north cape and its innermost recess. Shanghai is the great emporium of the trade of this district with the tea-provinces on the South, with the province of Shantung and the coast of the Mantchoo Tartars on the North.
- [...] on July 16, 1790, a public meeting [...] unanimously approved of a scheme for making the River Soar navigable from Leicester to Loughborough, and "a cut or rail-way from Swannington and the neighbourhood to the bason at Loughborough."
- 2
Seaworthy; in a navigable state; steerable.
- 3
Steerable, dirigible.
- 4
Easy to navigate.
- This Web site isn't very navigable. I can't tell which image links to which page.
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。