fleet

英 [fliːt] 美[flit]

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近义词nimble group company quick fast band rapid

adj. 快速的，敏捷的
n. 舰队；港湾；小河
vi. 飞逝；疾驰；掠过
vt. 消磨
n. (Fleet)人名；(英)弗利特

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中文词源

fleet 舰队

来自PIE*pleu,浮动，流，词源同flow, float, pluvial. 用来指船只，舰队。

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复数: fleets;

英文词源

fleet: fleet: [OE] Fleet is one of a vast tangled web of words which traces its history back ultimately to Indo-European *pleu-, denoting ‘flow, float’ (amongst its other English descendants are fly, flood, flow, fledge, fowl, plover, and pluvial). Fleet itself comes from the extended Indo- European base *pleud-, via the Germanic verb *fleutan and Old English flēotan ‘float, swim’ (modern English float comes from the related Old English flotian).

The verb has now virtually died out, but it survives in the form of the present participial adjective fleeting, which developed the sense ‘transient’ in the 16th century, and in the derived noun fleet: Old English seems to have had two distinct nouns flēot based on the verb flēotan, one of which meant ‘ships’, and the other of which signified ‘creek, inlet’ (it survives in the name of London’s Fleet Street, which runs down to the now covered-up Thames tributary, the river Fleet).

The adjective fleet ‘quick’ (as in ‘fleet of foot’) was probably borrowed from Old Norse fljótr, likewise a descendant of Germanic *fleut-.
=> fledge, float, flood, flow, fowl, plover, pluvial
fleet (n.): Old English fleot "a ship, raft, floating vessel," also, collectively, "means of sea travel; boats generally," from fleotan "to float" (see fleet (v.)). Sense of "naval force, group of ships under one command" is in late Old English. The more usual Old English word was flota "a ship," also "a fleet; a sailor." The fleet for "the navy" is from 1712.

The Old English word also meant "estuary, inlet, flow of water," especially the one into the Thames near Ludgate Hill, which lent its name to Fleet Street (home of newspaper and magazine houses, standing for "the English press" since 1882), Fleet prison (long used for debtors), etc.
fleet (adj.): "swift," 1520s, but probably older than the record; apparently from or cognate with Old Norse fliotr "swift," from Proto-Germanic *fleuta, which is related to the source of fleet (v.). Related: Fleetness.
fleet (v.): Old English fleotan "to float; drift; flow, run (as water); swim; sail (of a ship)," from Proto-Germanic *fleutan (cognates: Old Frisian fliata, Old Saxon fliotan "to flow," Old High German fliozzan "to float, flow," German fliessen "to flow, run, trickle" (as water), Old Norse fliota "to float, flow"), from PIE root *pleu- "to flow, swim" (see pluvial).

Meaning "to glide away like a stream, vanish imperceptibly" is from c. 1200; hence "to fade, to vanish" (1570s). Related: Fleeted; fleeting.

双语例句

1. A fleet of ambulances took the injured to hospital.: 一队救护车把伤者送往医院。

2. He ordered the combined fleet to convoy troops to Naples.: 他命令联合舰队将军队护送到那不勒斯。

3. Using an alias, he had rented a house in Fleet, Hampshire.: 他用化名在汉普郡的舰队街租了间房子。

4. In contrast with its surface fleet, Britain's submarine force was relatively small.: 同其水面舰队相比，英国的潜艇部队规模相对较小。

5. A fleet of police cars suddenly arrived. Dozens of officers piled out.: 突然开来一队警车，数十个警察一拥而出。

英英释意

1. group of aircraft operating together under the same ownership

2. group of motor vehicles operating together under the same ownership

3. a group of steamships operating together under the same ownership

4. a group of warships organized as a tactical unit

考试真题

king willem-Alexander of the Netherlands said that he recently ended his role as a regular "guest pilot" after 21 years with the national airlines fleet of now-outdated aircraft.

It will slash staffing at its fleet of 770 stores, a move affecting some 3,000 employees.

It had, apparently, been fished out of existence; and the once mighty Newfoundland fleet now gropes about frantically for crab on the sea floor.

实用场景例句

fleet of foot: 跑得快

fleet-footed: 跑得快

the company's new fleet of vans: 公司的新客货车队

a fishing/whaling fleet: 捕鱼 / 捕鲸船队

a reduction in the size of the British fleet: 英国海军的裁减

The damage inflicted upon the British fleet was devastating.: 英国舰队遭到了毁灭性的重创。

...restaurants supplied by local fishing fleets.: 由当地捕鱼船队供货的饭馆

With its own fleet of trucks, the company delivers most orders overnight...: 这个公司拥有自己的货车车队，大多数订购货品可以隔日送到。

A fleet of ambulances took the injured to hospital.: 一队救护车把伤者送往医院。

Their fleet put to sea from Charleston.: 他们的舰队从查尔顿启航了.

Meanwhile, Minos had raised a considerable fleet, and set out in search of Deadalus.: 与此同时, 弥诺斯组建了一支庞大的船队, 外出搜寻代达罗斯.

An enormously powerful fleet was concentrated at Pearl Harbour.: 一支极其强大的舰队集结在珍珠港.

The storm beached half the fleet.: 风暴使舰队的半数舰只搁浅.

What of the reports of the Rebel fleet massing near Sullust?: 集结在星的叛军舰队有什么报告吗 ?

If the planet gets attacked, only the planetowner sees the attacking fleet his overview.: 假如星球被攻击, 只有星球的持有者能看到攻击的舰队.

Gary captained the fleet.: 加里率领着舰队.

The authorities fitted the explorers a fleet.: 当局为探险者配备了一艘舰艇.

The fleet is manoeuvring off the east coast.: 舰队正在东海岸外演习.

The Roman fleet after it had been revictualled and repaired stood right across the Mediterranean.: 经过再补给及修理后,罗马舰队横拦着地中海

The fishing fleet comprises around 70 boats.: 捕鱼船队由大约70艘渔船组成.

He was placed in command of the fleet.: 他被任命为舰队司令.

The state has extended her merchant fleet phenomenally.: 这个国家以惊人的速度扩大其商船队.

They maintain a very powerful fleet in Oriental waters.: 他们在远东海域保持着一支非常强大的舰队.

The Dutch fleet are sailing up the Thames.: 荷兰舰队向泰晤士河上游驶去.

He made his money with a fleet of moving vans.: 他靠一队家具搬运车赚钱.

Fleet Admiral William Hunter: 海军五星上将威廉∙亨特

The army should have operated in conjunction with the fleet to raid the enemy's coast.: 陆军本应与舰队共同行动，突袭敌方海岸。

A fleet of ambulances took the injured to hospital.: 一队救护车把伤者送往医院。

He ordered the combined fleet to convoy troops to Naples.: 他命令联合舰队将军队护送到那不勒斯。

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