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Portage is when people take a small boat out of the water and carry it over land — from one river or lake to another, or around a waterfall they cannot through. You meet it in and in old travel stories, especially from places like Canada, where lakes do not always join up.
Portage is when people take a small boat out of the water and carry it over landportage是指人們把小船從水裡搬出來、扛過陸地 — from one river or lake to another從一條河或湖搬到另一條，or around a waterfall they cannot paddle through或是繞過划不過去的瀑布。You meet it in canoeing and in old travel stories你會在划獨木舟和古老的旅行故事裡遇到這個詞，especially from places like Canada尤其是像加拿大這種地方，where lakes do not always join up那裡的湖泊不一定互相連通。
It is also a verb: you portage the canoe. City English almost never needs it; it is an outdoor, slightly technical word.
It is also a verb它也可以當動詞：you portage the canoe你portage這艘獨木舟。City English almost never needs it城市裡的英文幾乎用不到它；it is an outdoor, slightly technical word這是個戶外、帶點專業感的詞。
Though actually, it can also mean the path itself (“the portage was two ”), and in older use it could mean a fee for carrying goods. For a , the boat-carrying sense is the one that matters.
Though actually不過其實，it can also mean the path itself它也可以指那條搬運的路徑本身 (“the portage was two kilometres”)（「這段portage有兩公里長」），and in older use而在較舊的用法裡 it could mean a fee for carrying goods它可以指搬運貨物的費用。For a learner對學習者來說，the boat-carrying sense is the one that matters「搬船」這個意思才是重要的。
It is not slang, and it is not the same as a harbour.
It is not slang它不是俚語，and it is not the same as a harbour也跟harbour（港口）不一樣。
原始詞典資料20 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
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A community in Cape Breton Regional Municipality, on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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A settlement in Prince Edward Island, Canada.
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A small settlement in the Marlborough Sounds, Marlborough, New Zealand.
portagenoun/ˈpɔː(ɹ)tɪd͡ʒ/
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An act of carrying, especially the carrying of a boat overland between two waterways.
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The route used for such carrying.
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A charge made for carrying something.
- gaining thereby the charge of portage; was a great benefit to them
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Carrying capacity; tonnage.
- Onely the shippe that came thither payde a small thing according to her portage, aud euery yeere in the port of Orisa were laden fiue and twentie or thirtie ships great and smal with ryce and diuers sortes of fine white bumbaste cloth[…]
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The wages paid to a sailor when in port, or for a voyage.
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A porthole.
- Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; Let pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
portageverb/ˈpɔː(ɹ)tɪd͡ʒ/
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nauticaltransportTo carry a boat overland.
- Two months have now elapsed since the work was first begun, viz: from the 20th of last December to the 20th instant, fully one month of which has been occupied in exploring, and the remainder in camping, portageing and measuring; […]
- You’d better leave it to him to decide whether it’s worth lumping a canoe along and portageing.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。