新东方-柯林斯雅思备考词典

float

英 [fləʊt]

[NOUN, VERB]

词汇频率：

NOUN. 名词

floats
1. [C 可数名词] 救生圈
A float is a light object that is used to help someone or something float.
双语例句
例：
Floats will provide confidence in the water.
救生圈可以增加人们在水中的信心。
2. [C 可数名词] 浮子 , 鱼漂
A float is a small object attached to a fishing line which floats on the water and moves when a fish has been caught.
3. [C 可数名词] 游行彩车
A float is a lorry on which displays and people in special costumes are carried in a parade.
双语例句
例：
a procession of makeshift floats bearing loudspeakers and banners.
装有喇叭、挂有横幅的临时游行彩车队。

VERB. 动词

floats , floating , floated
1. [I 不及物动词] 漂浮
If something or someone is floating in a liquid, they are in the liquid, on or just below the surface, and are being supported by it. You can also float something on a liquid.
双语例句
例：
They noticed ten and twenty pound notes floating in the water.
他们注意到水中漂浮着一些10英镑和20英镑的纸币。
例：
It's below freezing and small icebergs are floating by.
温度在零度以下，水面上漂过一座座小冰山。
2. [I 不及物动词] （在水面或水中）漂浮
Something that floats lies on or just below the surface of a liquid when it is put in it and does not sink.
双语例句
例：
They will also float if you drop them in the water.
如果你把它们丢进水里，它们也会浮起来。
3. [I 不及物动词] （在空中）飘浮
Something that floats in or through the air hangs in it or moves slowly and gently through it.
双语例句
例：
The white cloud of smoke floated away.
那团白色的烟雾飘走了。
4. [T 及物动词] 提出
If you float a project, plan, or idea, you suggest it for others to think about.
双语例句
例：
The French had floated the idea of placing the diplomatic work in the hands of the UN.
法国人主张将外交工作交由联合国处理。
5. [T 及物动词] 使（公司）上市
If a company director floats their company, they start to sell shares in it to the public.
双语例句
例：
He floated his firm on the stock market.
他让自己的公司上市了。
6. [I 不及物动词] 使（货币）自由浮动
If a government floats its country's currency or allows it to float, it allows the currency's value to change freely in relation to other currencies.
双语例句
例：
On January 15th Brazil was forced to float its currency.
1月15日巴西被迫允许其货币自由浮动。