| 单词 | sampan | 
| 释义 | sampann.1 1.  A Chinese word meaning ‘boat’, applied by Europeans in the China seas to any small boat of Chinese pattern. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels from specific country or region > 			[noun]		 > types of regional vessel > in China sampan1620 1620    R. Cocks Diary 		(1883)	 II. 122  				Yt was thought fytt and brought in question by the Hollanders to trym up a China sampan to goe with the fleete. 1653    H. Cogan tr.  F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xx. 72  				Quiay Panian pursued them in a Champana. 1730    W. Wriglesworth MS. Log-bk. of ‘Lyell’ 9 Sept.  				Took in 2 Sampan Loads of Wood. 1745    P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 296  				Several Chinese Champans, or small Fishing-Boats. 1867    W. H. Smyth  & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk.  				Sampaan, or Sampan, a neatly-adjusted kind of hatch-boat, used by the Chinese for passengers, and also as a dwelling for Tartar families, with a comfortable cabin.  2.  U.S. (See quot. 1897.) ΚΠ 1897    Outing July 362/2  				But the bay has a boat whose style is peculiar to the place. It is called a ‘sanpan’, and is an eight-foot punt, made of a few pine boards, which in light winds simply skims along the surface of the water. Compounds  sampan-wallah  n.				 [wallah n.]			 a boatman in charge of a sampan. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > 			[noun]		 > sailor on other types of craft brigantiner1555 gondolier1603 collier1716 Greenlandman?1785 junkman1795 surfman1816 Whitehaller1824 gig1833 yawler1833 coracler1834 keel-boatman1839 square-rigger1855 surf boatman1856 skiffman1868 flatman1883 yawlsman1885 packet rat1887 hookerman1894 scooterist1919 launchman1924 sampan-wallah1932 tanker man1932 hydrocyclist- 1932    Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Sept. 693/3  				In time he became a sampan-wallah. 1934    ‘G. Orwell’ Burmese Days vii. 123  				The successful sampan-wallah turned and discharged at his rival a mouthful of spittle. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online June 2022). sampann.2  = tampan n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > 			[noun]		 > order Acari or family Acaridae > member of (tick) > miscellaneous or unspecified types > member of genus Ornithodorus tampan1861 sampan1898 1898    W. C. Scully Between Sun & Sand i. 8  				The ground beneath is full of the dreaded ‘sampans’, which bury themselves in the flesh and cause serious injury. 1920    Glasgow Herald 2 Sept. 4  				The minor plagues of scorpions and ‘sampans’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online September 2018). <  | 
	
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