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tarpaulin [tɑr'pɔlɪn]

n. 柏油帆布, 油布衣, 防水帽

[医] 帆布

tarpaulin

[ noun ]
waterproofed canvas
<noun.artifact>

Tarpaulin \Tar*pau"lin\, n. [Tar + palling a covering, pall to
cover. See {Pall} a covering.]
1. A piece of canvas covered with tar or a waterproof
composition, used for covering the hatches of a ship,
hammocks, boats, etc.

2. A hat made of, or covered with, painted or tarred cloth,
worn by sailors and others.

3. Hence, a sailor; a seaman; a tar.

To a landsman, these tarpaulins, as they were
called, seemed a strange and half-savage race.
--Macaulay.

It consists simply of an enormous rectangle of dark, richly worked brownish tarpaulin punctuated only by a small white and gold banner emblazoned with the six letters of the title.
In Philadelphia, three workers were injured at the Naval Shipyard when a tarpaulin tore open and sent them plunging 40 feet to the deck of an aircraft carrier, a shipyard spokesman said.
Some of the homes are built of cardboard and tarpaulin and perch precariously on geologically unsafe hillsides.
Drinking water ran out as the ship crossed the Atlantic, so the crew spread a tarpaulin on deck to catch the rain.
Joe Copeland, 26, slowed down on a freeway Sunday to avoid a rolled-up tarpaulin that had just fallen onto the pavement from a truck, said Sgt. W.D. Elsey.
The 5,300-ton ship, the Al-Yarmouk (co-owned by Jordan and Syria), was carrying a special cargo concealed under its tarpaulin: 24 advanced Scud-C missiles and mobile launchers from North Korea.
Moore, whose group has a "Dump Patrol" that monitors the landfill, said she also witnessed shippers use the same tarpaulin to cover garbage and shipments of produce.
The plane's cockpit remained at the site Monday, sealed in a plastic blue tarpaulin adjacent to a row of seats pulled from the plane.

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