用英语介绍轮船

Passenger shipA passenger ship is a ship whose primary function is to carry passengers. The category does not include cargo vessels which have accommodations for limited numbers of passengers, such as the ubiquitous twelve-passenger freighters once common on the seas in which the transport of passengers is secondary to the carriage of freight. The type does however include many classes of ships designed to transport substantial numbers of passengers as well as freight. Indeed, until recently virtually all ocean liners were able to transport mail, package freight and express, and other cargo in addition to passenger luggage, and were equipped with cargo holds and derricks, kingposts, or other cargo-handling gear for that purpose. Only in more recent ocean liners and in virtually all cruise ships has this cargo capacity been eliminated.While typically passenger ships are part of the merchant marine, passenger ships have also been used as troopships and often are commissioned as naval ships when used as for that purpose.TypesPassenger ships include ferries, which are vessels for day or overnight short-sea trips moving passengers and vehicles (whether road or rail); ocean liners, which typically are passenger or passenger-cargo vessels transporting passengers and often cargo on longer line voyages; and cruise ships, which typically transport passengers on round-trips, in which the trip itself and the attractions of the ship and ports visited are the principal draw.An ocean liner is the traditional form of passenger ship. Once such liners operated on scheduled line voyages to all inhabited parts of the world. With the advent of airliners transporting passengers and specialized cargo vessels hauling freight, line voyages have almost died out. But with their decline came an increase in sea trips for pleasure, and in the latter part of the 20th century ocean liners gave way to cruise ships as the predominant form of large passenger ship.Although some ships have characteristics of both types, the design priorities of the two forms are different: ocean liners value speed and traditional luxury while cruise ships value amenities (swimming pools, theaters, ball rooms, casinos, sports facilities, etc.) rather than speed. These priorities produce different designs. In addition, ocean liners typically were built to cross the Atlantic Ocean between Europe and the United States or travel even further to South America or Asia while cruise ships typically serve shorter routes with more stops along coastlines or among various islands.For a long time cruise ships were never as large as the old ocean liners had been, but in the 1980s this changed when Knut Kloster, the director of Norwegian Caribbean Lines, bought one of the biggest surviving liners, the SS France, and transformed her into a huge cruise ship, which he renamed the SS Norway. Her success demonstrated that there was a market for large cruise ships. Successive classes of ever-larger ships were ordered, until the Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth was finally dethroned from her 56-year reign as the largest passenger ship ever built.Both the RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) (1969) and her successor as Cunard's flagship RMS Queen Mary 2 (QM2), which entered service in 2004, are of hybrid construction. Like transatlantic ocean liners, they are fast ships and strongly built to withstand the rigors of the North Atlantic in line voyage service,[1] but both ships are also designed to operate as cruise ships, with the amenities expected in that trade. QM2 superseded the Explorer of the Seas of the Royal Caribbean line as the largest passenger ship ever built, and in turn was surpassed by Royal Caribbean's cruise ship Freedom of the Seas. The latter ship, and her sisters, will in turn be superseded by ships of the Oasis Class scheduled for delivery starting in 2009. [2][edit] Measures of sizeBy convention and long usage, the size of civilian passenger ships is measured by gross tonnage, which is a measure of enclosed volume. Gross tonnage is not a measure of weight, although the two concepts are often confused. Weight is measured by displacement, which is the conventional means of measuring naval vessels. Often a passenger ship is stated to "weigh" or "displace" a certain "tonnage", but the figure given nearly always refers to gross tons.While a high displacement can indicate better sea keeping abilities,[3] gross tonnage is promoted as the most important measure of size for passengers, as the ratio of gross tonnage per passenger – the Passenger/Space Ratio – gives a sense of the spaciousness of a ship, an important consideration in cruise liners where the onboard amenities are of high importance.[4][5]Gross tonnage normally is a much higher value than displacement. This was not always the case; as the functions, engineering and architecture of ships have changed, the gross tonnage figures of the largest passenger ships have risen substantially, while the displacements of such ships have not. RMS Titanic, with a gross tonnage of 46,329, but a displacement reported at over 52,000 tons,[6] was heavier than contemporary 100,000 – 110,000 gross ton cruise ships which displace only around 50,000 tons. Similarly, the Cunard Line's RMS Queen Mary and RMS Queen Elizabeth, of approximately 81,000 – 83,000 gross tons, but displacements of over 80,000 tons,[7] do not differ significantly in displacement from their new 148,528 gross ton successor, RMS Queen Mary 2, which has been estimated to displace approximately 76,000 tons, [8] or from the even newer 154,407 gross ton MS Freedom of the Seas,[9] which is also estimated to displace in the range of 75 – 80,000 tons.[10] Indeed, not until the 2009 launch of the first of the Oasis Class ships, which is projected to displace about 100,000 tons,[2] will there be a passenger ship which clearly surpasses the Cunard Queens of the 1930s in displacement.However, by the conventional and historical measure of gross tonnage, there has been a recent dramatic increase in the size of the largest new ships. The Oasis class ships will measure 220,000 gross tons, over four times larger than Titanic and twice as large as the largest cruise ships of the late 1990s.List of largest passenger ships of their timeYear Name Gross tonnage Company Country 1819 SS Savannah 320 BRT Savannah Steamship Company United States 1831 SS Royal William 540 BRT St. John & Halifax Steam Navigation Company Canada 1838 SS Great Western 1,340 BRT Great Western Steamship Company United Kingdom 1839 SS British Queen 1,862 BRT British & American Steam Navigation Company United Kingdom 1840 SS President 2,366 BRT British & American Steam Navigation Company United Kingdom 1845 SS Great Britain 3,270 BRT Great Western Steamship Company United Kingdom 1853 SS Himalaya 3,438 BRT P & O Steam Navigation Company Ltd. United Kingdom 1853 SS Atrato 3,466 BRT Royal Mail Line Ltd. United Kingdom 1857 SS Adriatic 4,145 BRT New York & Liverpool United States Mail S.S. Co. (Collins) United States 1858 SS Great Eastern 18,915 BRT Eastern Steam Navigation Company United Kingdom 1867 RMS Republic (after loss of Great Eastern) 4,352 BRT Pacific Mail Steamship Company Inc. United States 1871 RMS Egypt 4,670 BRT National Line Ltd. United Kingdom 1873 RMS City of Chester 4,770 BRT Inman Line Ltd. United Kingdom 1874 RMS Britannic 5,008 BRT White Star Line Ltd. United Kingdom 1875 SS City of Berlin 5,526 BRT Inman Line Ltd. United Kingdom 1881 SS Servia 7,391 BRT Cunard Line United Kingdom 1881 SS City of Rome 8,415 BRT Inman Line United Kingdom 1888 SS City of New York 10,499 BRT Inman Line United Kingdom 1893 RMS Campania 12,950 BRT Cunard Line United Kingdom 1893 RMS Lucania 12,952 BRT Cunard Line United Kingdom 1897 SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Große 14,349 BRT Norddeutscher Lloyd Germany 1899 RMS Oceanic 17,274 BRT White Star Line Ltd. United Kingdom 1901 RMS Celtic 21,035 BRT White Star Line Ltd. United Kingdom 1905 SS Amerika 22,225 BRT Hapag Germany 1905 RMS Baltic 23,876 BRT White Star Line Ltd. United Kingdom 1906 SS Kaiserin Auguste Victoria 24,581 BRT Hapag Germany 1907 RMS Lusitania 31,550 BRT Cunard Line Ltd. United Kingdom 1907 RMS Mauretania 31,938 BRT Cunard Line Ltd. United Kingdom 1911 RMS Olympic 45,234 BRT White Star Line Ltd. United Kingdom 1912 RMS Titanic 46,329 BRT White Star Line Ltd. United Kingdom 1912 RMS Olympic (after loss of Titanic and refit) 46,439 BRT White Star Line Ltd. United Kingdom 1913 SS Imperator 52,117 BRT Hapag Germany 1914 SS Vaterland 54,282 BRT Hapag Germany 1914 SS Bismarck 56,551 BRT Hapag Germany 1922 RMS Majestic (ex Bismarck) 56,551 BRT White Star Line Ltd. United Kingdom 1935 SS Normandie 79,280 BRT Compagnie Générale Transatlantique S.A. France 1940 RMS Queen Elizabeth 83,673 BRT Cunard-White Star Ltd. United Kingdom 1971 SS Seawise University (ex Queen Elizabeth) 83,673 BRT Orient Overseas Container Line Hong Kong 1972 SS France (after loss of Seawise University) 66,343 BRT Compagnie Générale Transatlantique France 1984 SS Norway (ex France) 70,202 BRT Norwegian Cruise Line Norway/United States 1988 MS Sovereign of the Seas 73,192 BRT Royal Caribbean International Norway/United States 1990 SS Norway (after reconstruction) 76,049 BRT Norwegian Cruise Line Norway/United States 1996 MS Carnival Destiny 101,509 BRZ Carnival Cruise Line Inc. United States 1997 MS Grand Princess 108,865 BRZ P & O Princess Cruises Ltd. United Kingdom/United States 1999 MS Voyager of the Seas 137,276 BRT Royal Caribbean International Norway/United States 2000 MS Explorer of the Seas 137,308 BRT Royal Caribbean International Norway/United States 2004 RMS Queen Mary 2 148,528 BRT Cunard Line Ltd. United Kingdom 2006 MS Freedom of the Seas 154,407 GT Royal Caribbean International Norway/United States 2007 MS Liberty of the Seas and MS Freedom of the Seas 154,407 GT Royal Caribbean International Norway/United States 2008 MS Independence of the Seas 154,407 GT Royal Caribbean International Norway/United States

轮船用英语：steamer。

n. 汽船，大轮船；汽锅，蒸锅；结帮抢劫者，团伙抢劫

短语

paddle steamer 明轮艇 ; 弥汽船 ; 明轮蒸汽机船

direct steamer 直达船 ; 直轮 ; 直达轮

royal mail steamer 皇家邮轮 ; 英国邮船

free on steamer 蒸汽船上交货 ; 船上交货价格 ; 船上交货价格船上交货

bamboo steamer 蒸笼 ; 竹蒸笼 ; 竹篓 ; 笼屉

tramp steamer [船] [水运] 不定期货船 ; 不定期轮船 ; 不定线货船 ; 流动货船

When does your steamer sail?

你们的轮船什么时候启航？

Under the stress of competition, steamer was added to steamer, loss piled on loss, while the income dwindled till it ceased to be worth while to print tickets.

在竞争的压力下，轮船一艘艘增加，亏损越来越大，而收入却逐渐减少，最后连印船票都不值得了。

“轮船”用英语是：steamship 。

“船”一词起源于中国唐代，其产生与船权改革有关。我国对于唐代李皋发明了“桨轮船“。他在船尾或舷侧安装了桨叶的桨轮，并推动螺旋桨轴周围的桨叶来推动船前进。轮船的推进有两种方式，一种是原始的以人力踩踏木轮推进，一种是以螺旋浆推进。狭义的轮船定义。狭义的轮船是指用汽轮机推进的船只。

轮船是指用汽轮机推进的船只。1807年，美国人罗伯特·富尔顿建造了世界上第一艘蒸汽机动力的轮船。那么你知道吗?下面来学习一下吧。

轮船英语说法1：

steamer

轮船英语说法2：

steamship

轮船英语说法3：

steamboat

轮船的相关短语：

招商轮船 China Merchants Energy Shipping

南美轮船 CSAV ; CSAV NORASIA

乘轮船 on a ship ; take a boat ; by ship ; by boat

乘坐轮船 Taking the Ship ; By ship ; aboard a vessel ; Take the ship

浅水轮船 light draft steamer ; light draught steamer

万吨级轮船 ton class vessel

小轮船 tender ; boat

轮船的英语例句：

1. Joseph watched a shady-looking bunch playing cards aboard a Mississippi steamer.

约瑟夫看到一群可疑的人在密西西比河的一艘轮船上打牌。

2. He gently opened the throttle, and the ship began to ease forward.

他轻轻松开油门杆，轮船开始缓缓前行。

3. He personally had received orders from mander Lehmann to scuttle the ship.

他个人已收到莱曼司令要求凿沉轮船的命令。

4. Within ninety minutes the ship was ready for departure.

90分钟之内轮船准备出发。

5. The ship went under, taking with her all her crew.

轮船连同其所有的船员一起沉没了。

6. The ship sliced through the water.

轮船在水中破浪前行。

7. The ship made an unscheduled stop at Hawaii.

轮船临时停靠在夏威夷。

8. The ship was pletely seaworthy.

这艘轮船在海上航行没问题。

9. The vessel docked at Liverpool in April 1811.

这艘轮船于1811年4月在利物浦靠岸。

10. The ship hit a sandbank.

轮船撞击到沙坝上。

11. the hulk of a wrecked ship

遇难轮船的残骸

12. We are having difficulty in firing up the ship's engines.

我们很难发动这艘轮船的引擎.

13. The sea gradually calmed down as we steamed out.

我们的轮船开走了,海面逐渐平静下来了.

14. The ship pitched and rolled and many passengers were sick.

那轮船颠簸摇晃,很多乘客头晕恶心.

15. A ship hove in sight just above the distant horizon.

一条轮船恰好出现在天海相接处.