caravan

英 [ˈkærəvæn]

美 [ˈkærəvæn]

n.  旅行拖车，宿营拖车(无发动机，由其他车拖动，多供度假时住宿用); (供居住用的)有篷马车，大篷车; (尤指穿越沙漠的)旅行队，车队
vi.  乘拖车度假; 参加旅行队旅行

复数：caravans　现在分词：caravanning　过去式：caravanned　第三人称单数：caravans　过去分词：caravanned　

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Collins.1 / BNC.4819 / COCA.10211

牛津词典

noun

• 旅行拖车，宿营拖车（无发动机，由其他车拖动，多供度假时住宿用）
  a road vehicle without an engine that is pulled by a car, designed for people to live and sleep in, especially when they are on holiday/vacation
  1. a caravan site/park
     旅行拖车停车场
• （供居住用的）有篷马车，大篷车
  a covered vehicle that is pulled by a horse and used for living in
  1. a Gypsy caravan
     吉卜赛人的大篷车
• （尤指穿越沙漠的）旅行队，车队
  a group of people with vehicles or animals who are travelling together, especially across the desert

柯林斯词典

• 旅行拖车;大篷车;房车
  Acaravanis a vehicle without an engine that can be pulled by a car or van. It contains beds and cooking equipment so that people can live or spend their holidays in it.

in AM, usually use 美国英语通常用 trailer


• N-COUNT (带着牲口的一群人结伴而行的)旅行队;车队
  Acaravanis a group of people and animals or vehicles who travel together.
  1. ...the old caravan routes from Central Asia to China.
     从中亚到中国的古老的旅行线路

英英释义

noun

• a camper equipped with living quarters
  Synonym:van
• a procession (of wagons or mules or camels) traveling together in single file
  1. we were part of a caravan of almost a thousand camels
  2. they joined the wagon train for safety
  Synonym:trainwagon train

verb

• travel in a caravan

双语例句

• The community advisor gave us a caravan to live in.
  社区顾问给了我们一间活动住房栖身。
• Police in Pakistan questioned three people in connection with thursday's bombing of Benazir bhutto's caravan.
  巴基斯坦警察审问与星期四贝娜齐尔。布托车队爆炸案有关的三个人。
• As our caravan exited the suburbs of Guangzhou we soon entered rural Guangdong.
  待车队驶出广州市区，我们很快就进入了广东的农村地区。
• Now our caravan is setting off again.
  我们的车子又出发了。
• It was a caravan of camels and traders from Midian.
  当他们坐下吃饭的时候，举目观看，见有一夥米甸的商人和他们的骆驼队。
• They've bought a motor caravan to go touring aronud europe.
  他们为周游欧洲而买了辆旅行房车。
• He packed off his wife and children to stay in a caravan in Wales
  他把妻儿打发到在威尔士的一辆旅行拖车上去住。
• Some people enjoy sleeping in a canvas tent, whereas others prefer a caravan.
  一些人喜欢在帆布的帐篷中宿营，还有一些人更喜欢使用他们的活动住宅旅行车。
• This week, our caravan bid farewell to Jiangsu Province and formally entered china's most famous coastal city shanghai.
  这一周，我们的车队告别了江苏，正式进入了中国最有名的沿海城市上海。
• Then they had taken for themselves all the merchandise and bullock carts of the caravan.
  然后他们就把商队所有的货物和牛车据为己有。