argosy

n. 大商船

词形变化

argosies 复数 argosies

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A merchant ship.

  2. 2.

    A merchant flotilla, fleet.

  3. 3.

    An abundant supply, boatload.

    Yet we may be grateful to him for saving for us from the wreck of ancient literature some waifs and strays which, but for his humble labours, might have sunk irretrievably with so many golden argosies in the fathomless ocean of the past.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

fleet

词源

Alteration of Italian ragusea (“a large ship”), after the maritime city of Ragusa, now Dubrovnik.

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