skiff

英 [skɪf]

美 [skɪf]

n.  (尤指单人的)小划艇，小帆船

复数：skiffs　

GRE

BNC.36342 / COCA.16271

牛津词典

noun

• （尤指单人的）小划艇，小帆船
  a small light boat for rowing or sailing, usually for one person

柯林斯词典

• (常指单人的)小艇，小船
  Askiffis a small light rowing boat or sailing boat, which usually has room for only one person.

英英释义

noun

• any of various small boats propelled by oars or by sails or by a motor

双语例句

• Skiff Miller shook his head, no longer belligerent, but kindly.
  斯基夫·米勒摇了摇头，但态度已从敌对转为友好。
• He settled the sack around his shoulders and put the skiff on her course.
  他把麻袋在肩头围围好，使小船顺着航线驶去。
• One turned and went out of sight under the skiff and the old man could feel the skiff shake as he jerked and pulled on the fish.
  一条鲨鱼转了个身，钻到小船底下不见了，它用嘴拉扯着死鱼，老人觉得小船在晃动。
• Free as a skiff before the dancing wind.
  在迅疾的风中，自由如一叶扁舟。
• He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.
  他是个独自在湾流中一条小船上钓鱼的老人，至今已去了八十四天，一条鱼也没逮住。
• Tom Sawyer was in the skiff that bore Judge Thatcher.
  汤姆-索亚和撒切尔法官同乘一条小艇。
• So he hooked a patch of yellow gulf weed with the gaff as they passed and shook it so that the small shrimps that were in it fell onto the planking of the skiff.
  所以他趁船经过的时候用鱼钩钩上了一簇黄色的马尾藻，把它抖抖，使里面的小虾掉在小船船板上。
• An Asian skiff usually propelled by two oars.
  用两个船桨推动的亚洲人使用的小船。
• They were headed straight for the skiff swimming side by side.
  它们笔直地并肩朝小船游来。
• Ain't nobody stole dad's skiff.
  没人会偷爸爸的小船。