ferry
ferry 英 [ˈferi] 美 [ˈfɛri]
n. 渡船； v. 摆渡；
进行时:ferrying 过去式:ferried 过去分词:ferried 第三人称单数:ferries 名词复数:ferries
- A ferry is a boat that carries people, cars, and cargo back and forth across a body of water. The Staten Island Ferry ferries commuters from Manhattan to Staten Island every ten minutes during rush hour.
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- n. 渡船；
- v. 摆渡；
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1. the cross-channel ferry service
横渡海峡轮渡服务
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2. We caught the ferry at Ostend.
我们在奥斯坦德赶上了渡船。
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3. He offered to ferry us across the river in his boat.
他提出坐他的船载我们渡河。
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4. The children need to be ferried to and from school.
孩子们上学放学需要摆渡。
- ferry (n.) early 15c., "a passage over a river," from the verb or from Old Norse ferju-, in compounds, "passage across water," ultimately from the same Germanic root as ferry (v.). Meaning "place where boats pass over a body of water" is from mid-15c. The sense "boat or raft to convey passengers and goods short distances across a body of water" (1580s) is a shortening of ferry boat (mid-15c.).
- ferry (v.) Old English ferian "to carry, convey, bring, transport" (in late Old English, especially over water), from Proto-Germanic *farjan "to ferry" (source also of Old Frisian feria "carry, transport," Old Norse ferja "to pass over, to ferry," Gothic farjan "travel by boat"), from PIE root *per-(2) "to lead, pass over." Related to fare (v.). Related: Ferried; ferries; ferrying.
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