seafarer

大学

n. 船员, 航海家 [法] 海员, 水手, 海上旅行者

发音

US /ˈsiˌfɛɹɚ/
其它
US /ˈsiˌfeɹɚ/
US /-fɛəɹɚ/

词形变化

seafarers 复数 seafarers

教材释义与例句

名词

船员；航海家

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Someone whose occupation is operating a ship or boat at sea, for either civilian or military purposes.

    An intergovernmental panel will draw up plans to relieve seafarers who have been stuck at sea during a crisis.

  2. 2.

    Anyone who travels by sea.

    航海家

    Clearly the earliest Australians were seafarers who landed there tens of thousands of years ago; our quest to know more about them — did they come from Melanesia? what kind of boats did they have? were they blown out to sea by a storm? — is ongoing.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 8

jack tar gob seaman mariner jacktar old salt sea dog

上位词 2

man sailor

下位词 10

officer pilot bosun boatswain whaler bo's'n bos'n bo'sun deckhand roustabout

词源

From Middle English *se-farere (suggested by se-farende, sa farinde (“sea-faring”)) equivalent to sea + farer (“traveler”) and to seafare + -er. Cognate with Middle Dutch seevarer, whence Modern Dutch zeevaarder (“seafarer”), West Frisian seefarder (“seafarer”), German Seefahrer (“seafarer”), Swedish sjöfarare (“seafarer”).

来源：wiktionary