| 单词 | convoy |
| 释义 | convoy (once / 866 pages) nv To travel in a convoy is to be escorted by a group of protective vehicles. If you are a teenage rock star with millions of fans, you probably need a security convoy just to go visit your grandmother. If the President visits your town, you may see a huge convoy of secret service vehicles, limousines, and police cars. Ships can also travel in convoys, with those carrying valuable items surrounded by warships. As a verb, convoy describes the act of traveling together, like when your family and other families convoy to a camp ground, driving in a group, making stops together, and waving to each other on the highway. WORD FAMILYconvoy: convoyed, convoying, convoys USAGE EXAMPLESIn the early hours of Monday 4 January a convoy of police vehicles pulled up in the ground-floor garage of the U-shaped installation. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) Hospitals and schools were repeatedly hit and UN relief supplies were suspended after an aid convoy was strafed. The Guardian(Dec 25, 2016) The Old Bailey heard the high-profile convoys led by the Muslim community became unwitting vehicles for the plan to fund terrorism. BBC(Dec 23, 2016) 1n the act of escorting while in transit Hyper accompaniment, escort the act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them 2n a procession of land vehicles traveling together Hyper procession the group action of a collection of people or animals or vehicles moving ahead in more or less regular formation 3n a collection of merchant ships with an escort of warships Hyper accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection several things grouped together or considered as a whole 4v escort in transit the trucks convoyed the cars across the battle zone the warships convoyed the merchant ships across the Pacific Hyper escort accompany as an escort |
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