We can see the dust particles floating in the sunlight clearly. 我们可以很清楚地看到阳光下的灰尘颗粒。
Have you seen my keys floating about (anywhere)? 你在什麽地方见到我的钥匙了吗?
There's a rumour floating around of a new job in the unit. 这个部门盛传有个新工作要聘人.
floating
[ noun ]
the act of someone who floats on the water
<noun.act> [ adj ]
borne up by or suspended in a liquid
<adj.all> the ship is still floating floating logs floating seaweed
continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another
<adj.all> a drifting double-dealer the floating population vagrant hippies of the sixties
inclined to move or be moved about
<adj.all> a floating crap game
(of a part of the body) not firmly connected; movable or out of normal position
<adj.all> floating ribs are not connected with the sternum a floating kidney
not definitely committed to a party or policy
<adj.all> floating voters
Floating \Float"ing\, a. 1. Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air.
2. Free or lose from the usual attachment; as, the floating ribs in man and some other animals.
3. Not funded; not fixed, invested, or determined; as, floating capital; a floating debt.
Trade was at an end. Floating capital had been withdrawn in great masses from the island. --Macaulay.
{Floating anchor} (Naut.), a drag or sea anchor; drag sail.
{Floating battery} (Mil.), a battery erected on rafts or the hulls of ships, chiefly for the defense of a coast or the bombardment of a place.
{Floating bridge}. (a) A bridge consisting of rafts or timber, with a floor of plank, supported wholly by the water; a bateau bridge. See {Bateau}. (b) (Mil.) A kind of double bridge, the upper one projecting beyond the lower one, and capable of being moved forward by pulleys; -- used for carrying troops over narrow moats in attacking the outworks of a fort. (c) A kind of ferryboat which is guided and impelled by means of chains which are anchored on each side of a stream, and pass over wheels on the vessel, the wheels being driven by stream power. (d) The landing platform of a ferry dock.
{Floating cartilage} (Med.), a cartilage which moves freely in the cavity of a joint, and often interferes with the functions of the latter.
{Floating dam}. (a) An anchored dam. (b) A caisson used as a gate for a dry dock.
{Floating derrick}, a derrick on a float for river and harbor use, in raising vessels, moving stone for harbor improvements, etc.
{Floating dock}. (Naut.) See under {Dock}.
{Floating harbor}, a breakwater of cages or booms, anchored and fastened together, and used as a protection to ships riding at anchor to leeward. --Knight.
{Floating heart} (Bot.), a small aquatic plant ({Limnanthemum lacunosum}) whose heart-shaped leaves float on the water of American ponds.
{Floating island}, a dish for dessert, consisting of custard with floating masses of whipped cream or white of eggs.
{Floating kidney}. (Med.) See {Wandering kidney}, under {Wandering}.
{Floating light}, a light shown at the masthead of a vessel moored over sunken rocks, shoals, etc., to warn mariners of danger; a light-ship; also, a light erected on a buoy or floating stage.
{Floating liver}. (Med.) See {Wandering liver}, under {Wandering}.
{Floating pier}, a landing stage or pier which rises and falls with the tide.
{Floating ribs} (Anat.), the lower or posterior ribs which are not connected with the others in front; in man they are the last two pairs.
{Floating screed} (Plastering), a strip of plastering first laid on, to serve as a guide for the thickness of the coat.
{Floating threads} (Weaving), threads which span several other threads without being interwoven with them, in a woven fabric.
Floating \Float"ing\, n. 1. (Weaving) Floating threads. See {Floating threads}, above.
2. The second coat of three-coat plastering. --Knight.
3. The process of rendering oysters and scallops plump by placing them in fresh or brackish water; -- called also {fattening}, {plumping}, and {laying out}. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Float \Float\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Floated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Floating}.] [OE. flotien, flotten, AS. flotian to float, swim, fr. fle['o]tan. See {Float}, n.] 1. To rest on the surface of any fluid; to swim; to be buoyed up.
The ark no more now floats, but seems on ground. --Milton.
Three blustering nights, borne by the southern blast, I floated. --Dryden.
2. To move quietly or gently on the water, as a raft; to drift along; to move or glide without effort or impulse on the surface of a fluid, or through the air.
They stretch their broad plumes and float upon the wind. --Pope.
There seems a floating whisper on the hills. --Byron.
In Earth's gravity, when materials like the astronauts are testing are mixed, the lighter one tends to float to the top. Hilmers said in zero gravity it was more like a yolk floating inside the egg white.
Piete said residents in West Berlin's Zehlendorf district reported seeing a balloon about 7:50 a.m. floating into the city over the wall.
"Sales of floating stocks will be according to our provisional production level," Mr. Aghazadeh said.
From the water, the four cupolas on the corner of the building create the impression of a floating palace.
But there are plenty of savings ideas floating around, and some of them might work.
Price controls on oil in the U.S. market were finally ended by the Reagan administration, but floating exchange rates still distort signals from other markets.
They either harden into rigidly fixed exchange rates - a common currency in all but the convenience - or they break down into some kind of 'dirty' floating. ERM members would be well advised to press ahead with maximum speed to monetary union.
They scarcely need reminding, but gilts traders will certainly see yesterday's floating rate auction announcement as another sign of how difficult market conditions have become.
For Britain the threat of imported inflation is very real. 'Many who advocate floating know full well what the consequences would be. They intend a devaluation of the pound.
Late Sunday, the bodies of a man and a small child were found floating near the city's seawall, said Gary Stone, a spokesman for Galveston's Emergency Operations Center.
The Germans want it applied again to floating currencies, but the commission is not keen.
Some of my friends copied whole paragraphs from newspapers." At one of Beijing's technical universities, numerous master copies of essays were floating around.
He's floating on a cloud.
Walls are recessed at the bottom to create a slight floating sensation.
Many of the discolored fish washed into the Oswego Eastside Marina, surrounding expensive yachts and floating under the docks.
Hey said a parachute attached to the shell failed to open and the shell penetrated the Earth instead of floating gently to the ground.
Art Sola, commander of the crew that allegedly stole cocaine from smugglers for themselves, told NBC he and his fellow guardsmen decided one afternoon to steal a kilogram of cocaine from a load they found floating in the Atlantic Ocean 15 miles offshore.
'I made all the gear, all the trapezes myself. 'Space travel interests me; people floating in space, free-fall parachuting, those sorts of things.
Alongside the floating harbour, which retains permanent high-water in the city's docks, there is an industrial museum and Arnolfini art gallery.
He might have added that similar enthusiasm had been shown only slightly earlier for floating exchange rates and monetary targets.
The statement said Navy search teams found no indications of survivors during an extensive air and water search of the area. Some floating debris, including aircraft parts from each helicopter, were recovered.
Prime is a floating rate.
This opera opens with the Nixons (tenor James Maddalena, in dark overcoat, soprano Carolann Page, petite and prim in her red frock) slowly floating down to China in a jet.
Next came balloons floating atop the Monument for Revolutionary Martyrs, a massive obelisk in the middle of the square. "Meet our demands," they read, as they bobbed in the wind.
'Richemont is not floating off any businesses, it's just shifting its shareholdings within different structures,' he said.
The Coast Guard made surveillance flights for three days, charting drifting oil for the fishing boats. "Very few areas where halibut fishing takes place had any free floating oil and it looks good," said Cmdr.
The new plan establishes a two-tier exchange-rate system, with a fixed rate for international commercial transactions and a floating rate for all others, including financial transactions.
BRAMALEA LTD., Toronto, said it borrowed $135 million from a syndicate of banks at a floating rate over the London Interbank Offered Rate.
The dollar is seen floating between 1.9400 and 1.9650 marks during late-August.
Arrears are covered by separate 12-year floating rate bonds not backed by collateral. The 30-year Brady bonds come in two varieties, allowing banks to choose between preserving principal or interest.