sailor

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Related topics: Occupations, Water

sail·or /ˈseɪlə $ -ər/ noun [countableC]

1 BOTTWsomeone who works on a ship 水手，海员

Six British sailors drowned.

六名英国海员溺水身亡。

We were both experienced sailors.

我们两个都是经验丰富的水手。

2. bad/good sailor TTWsomeone who does or does not feel sick when they are on a boat or ship 晕船的/不晕船的人

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bad/good sailor• I have never been a good sailor, and kept to my bunk for the first part of the journey.• Although he was a good sailor, Columbus was a bad governor.• As a yacht delivery skipper he had to be a damn good sailor.• Turns out all of us are pretty good sailors.• Even the best sailors can be swept into them, apart from which they can cause all sorts of damage to your equipment.• Ironically I do not make a very good sailor.• How he got there no-one knows, but he was a very good sailor and an even better artist.

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sailor• Janet married a sailor in the French navy.• A sailor appeared in front of him, holding two women in his arms.• Here are soldiers and sailors, with troops of acquaintances to see them off.• Morale dropped as sailors suffered from stress and uncertainty, he said.• They flung themselves at sailors in a bid for immortality.• Two thousand British sailors lost their lives when the ship went down.• Or firemen or merchant sailors or bakers.• A floating pontoon of surveying sailors.• Sure, its primary clientele was sailors.

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