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Navigator Ship Person Job N Count 可数名词 Aircraft 英

英语单词 navigator
英美音标 英 ['nævɪɡeɪtə(r)] 美 ['nævɪɡeɪtər]
中文释义 n.航海家;领航员;导航仪
英语例句 (1) They were a group of early navigators.
(2) The man is a sixteenth Spanish navigator.
(3) The navigator charted out the course.
(4) The navigator took a fix on the sun and steered the ship due north.
(5) Their new electronic navigator mislead them down the wrong road.
中文例句 (1) 他们是一群早期的航海家。
(2) 那个人是十六世纪的航海家。
(3) 领航员在海图上标出航向。
(4) 领航员对着太阳测方位后将船朝正北驶去。
(5) 他们新的电子导航器将他们带错路了。
vocabulary简明 A navigator is the person whose job it is to steer the ship. The navigator plans and charts the course and then points the boat in the right direction.
vocabulary扩展 Use the noun navigator when you talk about someone who's in charge of planning a ship's route. Airplanes have navigators too, to direct the course they will take using maps and various instruments. A more old fashioned meaning of navigator is an ocean explorer. In fact, in Latin, navigator simply means "sailor," from navis, "ship," and agere, "drive."
柯林斯解释
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[N-COUNT 可数名词](飞机或船只的)领航员,导航员 The navigator on an aircraft or ship is the person whose job is to work out the direction in which the aircraft or ship should be travelling.
  • He became an RAF navigator during the war.

    他在战争期间成为皇家空军的领航员。

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[N-COUNT 可数名词](旧时的)航海家 In the past, a navigator was an explorer who travelled by sea.

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