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A shipload is as much as one ship can carry — of goods, or of people. A shipload of rice is the whole cargo of one ship. Though actually people stretch it: a shipload of tourists can just mean a very large number, even when no ship is in the story. That loose use is informal. In careful writing, keep it for a real ship’s load.
一船的量
原始詞典資料2 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。
shiploadnoun/ˈʃɪpˌloʊd/
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nauticaltransportThe amount (of cargo) that a ship can carry.
- It might, under all the circumstances above stated, have been a question with other builders, whether to import one shipload of costly jaspers, or twenty of chalk flints; and whether to build a small church faced with porphyry and paved with agate, or to raise a vast cathedral in freestone.
- The Penrhyn slate quarry possibly dates back to the sixteenth century, as it appears that in 1580 Sion Tudor asked the Bishop of Bangor for a shipload of slate.
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Minced oath of shitload.
- But, providing you have access to a shipload of coloured pencils and a naughty boy to sharpen them, they are a good and valid classroom method with a variety of applications.
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。