skiffs

英 [skɪfs]

美 [skɪfs]

n.  (尤指单人的)小划艇，小帆船
skiff的复数

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.

双语例句

• The skiffs you have acquired on the course should stand you in good stead.
  你在这门课中所学到的技能应该对你有用。
• As twilight drew on, the ferryboat went back to her accustomed business and the skiffs disappeared.
  天色向晚，渡船又回到镇口摆渡去了，其余的小船也不见了。
• Shortly after the call to prayer sounds from the lakeshore shrine, farmers and traders cast off on narrow skiffs to truck, barter and exchange.
  湖畔神庙的唤拜声响过不久，农民和商贩在窄窄的小船上便把缆绳解开，买卖，易货，交换。
• There were a great many skiffs rowing about or floating with the stream in the neighborhood of the ferryboat, but the boys could not determine what the men in them were doing.
  另外有好多小船在渡船附近划动，漂来漂去，可孩子们却吃不准船上的人在干什么。
• The shore was deserted; there were no passers-by; not even a boatman nor a lighter-man was in the skiffs which were moored here and there.
  河滩荒僻，没有一个过路人；这里那里停泊着的驳船上也没有船夫，也没有装卸工人。