| 单词 | sea-lift |
| 释义 | > as lemmassea-lift sea-lift n. North American a large-scale transportation of troops, supplies, etc., by sea (cf. airlift n. 2); hence as v. transitive, to transport by sea. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > [noun] > on a large scale sea-lift1956 society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > transport by water [verb (transitive)] > on a large scale sea-lift1956 1956 Sun (Baltimore) 19 Dec. 2/1 The General Eltinge will sail..tomorrow with the first of 5,500 Hungarian refugees to head toward the United States by sea... The sealift complements commercial air services and the airlift inaugurated by United States military planes. 1967 Economist 4 Mar. 802/2 [The United States] has the air-lift and sea-lift capacity to be on hand whenever a power vacuum develops. 1972 S. Burnford One Woman's Arctic i. 15 It had been brought in by the annual sea-lift the year before. 1974 Greenville (S. Carolina) News 23 Apr. 14/3 The Middle East fighting proved, he says, our capacity to airlift and sealift needed munitions and equipment over long distances. 1980 N.Y. News 11 May 14/2 Officials put at 30,598 the total number of Cubans sealifted to freedom across the Florida strait. < as lemmas |
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