liner

英 ['la?n?] 美['la?n?]

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復(fù)數(shù):?liners;

liner 游輪，襯里

來自line,線，引申詞義航線，渡輪，襯里。

liner: liner: see line
liner (n.1): "ship belonging to a shipping line," 1838, from line (n.) on notion of a succession of ships plying between ports along regular "lines." Line in this sense first attested 1786 in reference to stagecoaches. Cosmetics sense first recorded 1926, short for eye-liner. The type of baseball hit was so called from 1874 (line drive attested from 1899).
liner (n.2): "person who fits a lining to," 1610s, agent noun from line (v.1). Meaning "thing serving as a lining" is from 1869. Liner notes in a record album are attested from 1953.

1. It became impractical to make a business trip by ocean liner.: 乘坐遠(yuǎn)洋班輪進(jìn)行商務(wù)旅行變得不合時(shí)宜了。

3. Jumbo jets somehow lack the glamour of the transatlantic liner.: 大型噴氣式飛機(jī)不像橫渡大西洋的客輪那么引人注目.