skiff

n.小艇，小型帆船；摩托小快艇

noun

1. （尤指单人的）小划艇，小帆船
   a small light boat for rowing or sailing, usually for one person

名词复数形式:skiffs

skiff 单人小划艇，小帆船

来自意大利语 schifo,小船，词源同 ship.引申词义小划艇，小帆船等。

1. The fish did not surface. Instead, it began to tow the skiff to the northwest.
   但是，那条鱼并没有浮出水面，反然而开始（begin）把小船拖着往西北方向跑。
2. I peeped out through the willow branches, and there it was a skiff, away across the water.
   我隔着柳条向外偷看，原来那里有一只小船，漂在水那边远远的地方。
3. Skiff Miller shook his head, no longer belligerent, but kindly.
   斯基夫·米勒摇了摇头，但态度已从敌对转为友好。
4. An Asian skiff usually propelled by two oars.
   用两个船桨推动的亚洲人使用的小船。
5. He untied the skiff at the stern, slipped into it, and was soon rowing cautiously upstream.
   剪嘴行（长翼水鸟）他解开船尾的小艇，悄悄跳上去，很快就小心翼翼地向上游划去。
6. If I could maneuver a skiff like that when I was your age.
   我在你这年纪的时候要是会开船。
7. Raw spray whiplashes the skiff, freezing as it strikes.
   湿冷的浪花抽打着小船，随打随冻成冰。
8. He was still bearing the pull of the fish across his shoulders but he placed his left hand on the gunwale of the bow and confided more and more of the resistance to the fish to the skiff itself.
   他肩上依旧承受着鱼的拉力，不过他把左手按在船头的舷上，把对抗鱼的拉力的任务越来越让小船本身来承担了。
9. They were headed straight for the skiff swimming side by side.
   它们笔直地并肩朝小船游来。
10. He had a bottle of water in the bow of the skiff and that was all he needed for the day.
    他在小船的船头上放着一瓶水，一整天只需要这个就够了。
11. One turned and went out of sight under the skiff and the old man could feel the skiff shake as he jerked and pulled on the fish.
    一条鲨鱼转了个身，钻到小船底下不见了，它用嘴拉扯着死鱼，老人觉得小船在晃动。
12. Ain't nobody stole dad's skiff.
    没人会偷爸爸的小船。
13. He settled the sack around his shoulders and put the skiff on her course.
    他把麻袋在肩头围围好，使小船顺着航线驶去。
14. He drank a little water before he lashed the marlin to bow and stern of his skiff.
    他喝了一点水，然后把马林鱼捆绑在他那条小船的头部和尾部。
15. Instead he lay there wallowing now in the seas and the old man pulled the skiff up onto him.
    它反而躺在海面上翻滚着，老人只得把小船驶到它的身边。
16. He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.
    他是个独自在湾流中一条小船上钓鱼的老人，至今已去了八十四天，一条鱼也没逮住。
17. The crewmen tried to haul in his skiff, but before they could get it alongside it sank.
    水手们要把他的小船也吊上去，但是还没有拉到艇边就沉没了。
18. Free as a skiff before the dancing wind.
    在迅疾的风中，自由如一叶扁舟。
19. Tom Sawyer was in the skiff that bore Judge Thatcher.
    汤姆-索亚和撒切尔法官同乘一条小艇。
20. He was past everything now and he sailed the skiff to make his home port as well and as intelligently as he could.
    他此刻超脱了这一切，只顾尽可能出色而明智地把小船驶回他家乡的港口。
21. A small bird came toward the skiff from the north.
    一只小鸟从北方朝小船飞来。
22. Each morning he rowed his skiff out into the Gulf Stream where the big fish was.
    每天早晨他划着小船到有大鱼出没的墨西哥湾流去。
23. Then he fell back into the sea and picked up the scent and started swimming on the course the skiff and the fish had taken.
    跟着它又掉回海里，嗅到了血腥气的踪迹，就顺着小船和那鱼所走的路线游去。
24. The captain of the boat met us at the town pier, loaded us onto a small skiff, and then took us to a mooring out in the harbor, where the boat was waiting.
    船长在城镇码头把我们载上一条小艇，然后把我们带到海港外的一个候船停泊处。
25. So he hooked a patch of yellow gulf weed with the gaff as they passed and shook it so that the small shrimps that were in it fell onto the planking of the skiff.
    所以他趁船经过的时候用鱼钩钩上了一簇黄色的马尾藻，把它抖抖，使里面的小虾掉在小船船板上。
26. The skiff was dancing at the stern.
    小艇直在海浪中摇摆。
27. All lights were out when he sailed into the little harbor and beached his skiff.
    当他划进小港，让小船冲上沙滩时，岸上的灯火都已灭了。
28. Our gunboats ploughed the waves. The skiff was dancing at the stern.
    我军炮艇破浪前进。小艇直在海浪中摇摆。
29. Skiff Miller looked puzzled.
    斯基夫米勒显得惶惑不解。