caravan

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n. 旅行队, 有篷顶的大车 [经] 商队, 结队商贩

发音

AU /ˈkæɹəvæn/
US /ˈkæɹəvæn/
US /ˈkæɹəvæn/
SCOT /ˈkaɾəvan/
其它 /kaɾəˈvan/

词形变化

caravans 复数 caravans caravaned caravaning caravanned caravans 三单 caravanning 现在分词 caravaning 现在分词 caravanned 过去式 caravanned 过去分词 caravaned 过去式 caravaned 过去分词

别名

karavan

教材释义与例句

名词

（可供居住的）拖车，大篷车；（穿过沙漠地带的）旅行队（如商队）；<英>活动住宅；<美>移民列车

动词

乘拖车度假；参加旅行队旅行

释义与例句

n. B2
  1. 1.

    A convoy or procession of travellers, their cargo and vehicles, and any pack animals, especially camels crossing a desert.

    商队

  2. 2.

    A furnished vehicle towed behind a car, etc., and used as a dwelling when stationary.

    拖挂房车

    旅行拖车

    澳大利亚 新西兰 南非
  3. 3.

    A group of camels.

v.
  1. 1.

    To travel in a caravan (procession).

    The wedding party got in their cars and caravaned from the chapel to the reception hall.

    1984, Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour, Information Retrieval Limited, Animal Behaviour Abstracts, Volume 12, page 73, Observations of caravaning were made on the domesticated musk shrew (Suncus murinus) with particular reference to its developmental aspects.

  2. 2.

    To travel and/or live in a caravan (vehicle).

    澳大利亚 英国

    When my parents retired they really got back into caravanning.

    1932, Walter Meade, Caravanning, Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin, The Cecil Aldin Book, page 55, It has to be remembered that, however enchanting the idea of caravanning may be, it is unlikely that it will consist entirely of watching sunsets and other people working — two of the most fascinating sights I know — but there are, regrettably enough, other and less romantic elements.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 3

train van wagon train

上位词 3

procession camper motor home

部分词 4

Conestoga Conestoga wagon covered wagon prairie schooner
动词

上位词 4

go move travel locomote

相关短语

caravan park 旅行车停车场 caravan parks caravan city caravan site caravan cities caravan sites caravan parker caravan parkers the dogs bark, but the caravan goes on 我行我素，岂管他哉 the dogs bark, but the caravan moves on motor caravan static caravan

词源

From Middle French caravane, from Old French carvane, from Persian کاروان (kârvân), from Middle Persian kʾlwʾn' (kārawān), from Old Persian 𐎣𐎠𐎼 (k-a-r, “people, subjects”). The word was used to designate a group of people who were travelling by camel or horse on the Silk Road. Doublet of Kairouan.

来源：wiktionary