sailing
n
1 [U] travelling in a yacht, dinghy, etc, esp as a sport 驾驶帆船航行(尤指作为运动)
I love sailing. 我喜欢帆船运动.
[attrib 作定语]
a sailing club, dinghy 帆船俱乐部、 帆船.
2 [C] voyage made regularly; departure of a ship on a voyage (轮船的)航班; 起船
three sailings a day from here to Calais 从这里到加来每日三次轮船航班.
3 (idm 习语) plain sailing => plain1.
I was doing some exercises on the high-and-low bars. When I landed, I fell forward and hurt myself. Someone was standing too close and I knocked into him and fell over onto my shoulder.
This person recognized the words for river and guitar, and so Haley thought that his ancestor must have come from Gambia.
这个人认出了表示“江”和“吉他”的这两个词,于是哈利就认为他的祖先准是来自冈比亚。
Even before India won independence from its British rulers, it was clear that Gandhi was the key figure and leader in the struggle of 380 million Indians to govern themselves.