catamaran
英 [,kætəmə'ræn]
美 ['kætəmə'ræn]
- catamaran
- catamaran: [17] Catamaran is a word borrowed from the Tamil language of the southeast coast of India. It is a compound meaning literally ‘tied wood’, made up of kattu ‘tie’ and maram ‘wood, tree’. It was first recorded in English in William Dampier’s Voyages 1697: ‘The smaller sort of Bark-logs are more governable than the others … This sort of Floats are used in many places both in the East and West Indies. On the Coast of Coromandel … they call them Catamarans’.
- catamaran (n.)
- East Indies log raft, 1670s, from Tamil kattu-maram "tied wood," from kattu "tie, binding" + maram "wood, tree."
- 1. His catamaran will do 37 knots.
- 他的双体船的速度可以达到37节。
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- 2. The Tornado is the only Olympic class catamaran.
- 托那多级是奥运会级别中唯一的双体船.
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- 3. On the surrounding waters of the resort isle, dive, windsurf, water - ski, even sail a catamaran.
- 马库努度岛周围的水域中, 你可以潜水 、 风帆冲浪 、 水橇滑水, 甚至双身船行驶.
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- 4. This paper concentrates on the problem of the wave resistance of a catamaran.
- 因此,研究考虑方艉影响的高速双体船兴波阻力问题具有实际意义.
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- 5. In the strong breeze the catamaran skimmed over the water, keeping abreast of the motorlaunch.
- 在强风中那艘双身船掠过海水, 与那艘机动小艇齐头并进.
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