cruising的意思|cruising的解释-里氏词典

cruising ['kru:ziŋ]

n. 巡航

A cruiser is cruising in the Baltic Sea.
一艘巡洋舰正游弋在波罗的海。
A stay for racing or cruising vessels used to steady the mast against the strain of the gaff.
稳定索，分隔索赛艇或巡逻艇上的支索，为防止斜桁的张力而用于稳定桅杆

Cruise \Cruise\ (kr[udd]z), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Cruised}
(kr[udd]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Cruising}.] [D. kruisen to move
crosswise or in a zigzag, to cruise, fr. kruis cross, fr. OF.
crois, croiz, F. croix, or directly fr. OF. croisier, F.
croiser, to cross, cruise, fr. crois a cross. See {Cross}.]
1. To sail back and forth on the ocean; to sail, as for the
protection of commerce, in search of an enemy, for
plunder, or for pleasure.

Note: A ship cruises in any particular sea or ocean; as, in
the Baltic or in the Atlantic. She cruises off any
cape; as, off the Lizard; off Ushant. She cruises on a
coast; as, on the coast of Africa. A pirate cruises to
seize vessels; a yacht cruises for the pleasure of the
owner.

Ships of war were sent to cruise near the isle of
Bute. --Macaulay.

'Mid sands, and rocks, and storms to cruise for
pleasure. --Young.

2. To wander hither and thither on land. [Colloq.]

3. (Forestry) To inspect forest land for the purpose of
estimating the quantity of lumber it will yield.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

4. To travel primarily for pleasure, or without any fixed
purpose, rather than with the main goal of reaching a
particular destination. To cruise the streets of town,
looking for an interesting party to crash.
[PJC]

"A couple of the events are cruising and drinking and getting out of hand," Bono said. "For the locals, it's a time we dread." Enter Anheuser-Busch, which tries to get its message across before the students hit town.
Now that mall-wandering has replaced cruising the strip as young America's favorite pastime, it seems the rules are changing.
Mayor Maureen O'Connor is cruising to election day next week in a mayoral contest that the news media in the nation's seventh-largest city have virtually ignored because even insiders find it dull.
The victim, an investment banker, was in a coma and close to death after she was attacked by a gang of youths cruising the park, authorities said.
Dealers say the central banks are preventing the dollar from cruising above 1.9000 marks, but a bullish U.S. trade report next month could easily cause the ceiling to be broken.
Until now, the fourth of 10 days of cruising, we have only visited islands lying off the coast of Antarctica.
"We were cruising along and you could hear the rush of the wind and the pitch of the wind and all of a sudden you could hear a big pop," he said.
Brader said the current invasion is "the biggest plague history recalls." A young humpback whale, possibly trying to find its way out of Puget Sound's maze of inlets, has been spotted cruising the waters of the south sound, marine biologists say.
West European tourists interviewed after arrival in Bangkok said they saw armored personnel carriers and jeeps armed with machine guns cruising the streets.
Even the Argies were cruising nicely until losing to Bulgaria.
Mr Terry McGovern, marketing manager for the company marketing the waterway, said it was expected to attract in particular German, Swiss, Dutch and French tourists on cruising holidays and anglers from Britain.
Pilots reported seeing the smoke layer over Chicago when they climbed to cruising altitudes of 30,000 and 40,000 feet, but no visibility problems were reported.
Parking lots became impromptu vintage automobile shows while late model cars dominated the strip, diluting what many identify as the true cruising experience.
Many regard the film as a documentary of sorts on the cruising tradition, and say it established this city of 130,000 as the Cruising Capital.
The report said the plane, which had just reached a cruising altitude of 31,000 feet, rapidly disintegrated following the explosion.
The ordinances do not affect the annual Graffiti Night, which celebrates the cruising tradition in grand proportions with up to 100,000 people in 30,000 cars.
In December 1989, according to one report, a TWA flight cruising over Ohio suddenly started banking to the left.
While cruising the United States, the vehicle will make promotional stops.
Police said two Syrian gunboats were cruising the Mediterranean north of Beirut to search ships plying Christian waters.
(Asean comprises Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.) The Philippines Department of Tourism recently identified cruising as an important new tourism product in its 20-year tourism master plan.
The dealer loaned the youth a demonstrator and he drove away, picked up another 15-year-old boy and spent Saturday cruising.
Business is so brisk that Voeroes plans to have a second boat cruising the lake, Hungary's most popular foreign tourist spot.
Wednesday's crash, the worst in British history, occurred 54 minutes after takeoff from London's Heathrow Airport and followed an apparently routine climb to a cruising altitude of 31,000 feet, airline officials and traffic controllers said.
But at the moment, Asia's international cruising is carried out by only about 25 ships, including foreign ones on regional and around-the-world trips, he says.
But under pressure from the airlines, the government has restructured its air-traffic-control system, sharply reducing the minimum distances by which planes must be separated at cruising and climbing altitude.
The vessel was cruising at 50 knots through six-foot swells and fog, he said.
The remarkable American economy is cruising through its 70th straight month of expansion, a record for peacetime.
They have a cruising speed of 20 knots.
More recently, they were no less impressive at far lower cruising speeds on UK motorways. How do the BMWs and Audi A8 rate against the new Jaguar XJ models and the latest luxury Range Rover?
If you do that and write about cruising as much as we do, you lose all your integrity, and you couldn't sell it.

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