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单词 slow-steam
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slow-steam
slow-steam v. intransitive (of a ship or other seagoing vessel) to travel at a deliberately slower speed than normal or standard; (also occasionally transitive) to cause (a ship) to travel at a deliberately slow speed.
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1862 A. H. Foote Rep. to U.S. Navy Dept. in N.-Y. Times 13 Feb. 1/4 As we approached the fort, slow steaming till we reached within 600 hundred yards of the rebel batteries, the fire both from the gunboats and the fort increased in rapidity and accuracy of range.
1975 Petroleum Economist Sept. 356/3 22 per cent of the active fleet..was estimated to be slow-steaming in July.
2009 Jrnl. Commerce (Nexis) 9 Feb. 11 The route around the Cape of Good Hope, on which Maersk slow-steams its ships, is about 4,000 miles longer.
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