catamaran: [17] Catamaran is a word borrowed from the Tamil language of the southeast coast of India. It is a compound meaning literally ‘tied wood’, made up of kattu ‘tie’ and maram ‘wood, tree’. It was first recorded in English in William Dampier’s Voyages 1697: ‘The smaller sort of Bark-logs are more governable than the others … This sort of Floats are used in many places both in the East and West Indies. On the Coast of Coromandel … they call them Catamarans’.
catamaran (n.)
East Indies log raft, 1670s, from Tamil kattu-maram "tied wood," from kattu "tie, binding" + maram "wood, tree."
雙語(yǔ)例句
1. His catamaran will do 37 knots.
他的雙體船的速度可以達(dá)到37節(jié)。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
2. The Tornado is the only Olympic class catamaran.
托那多級(jí)是奧運(yùn)會(huì)級(jí)別中唯一的雙體船.
來(lái)自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
3. On the surrounding waters of the resort isle, dive, windsurf, water - ski, even sail a catamaran.