caravan

• n. （可供居住的）拖車，大篷車；（穿過沙漠地帶的）旅行隊（如商隊）；活動住宅；移民列車
• vi. 乘拖車度假；參加旅行隊旅行

來自波斯語。

caravan

caravan: [16] Caravans have no etymological connection with cars, nor with char-a-bancs. The word comes ultimately from Persian kārwān ‘group of desert travellers’, and came into English via French caravane. Its use in English for ‘vehicle’ dates from the 17th century, but to begin with it referred to a covered cart for carrying passengers and goods (basis of the shortened form van [19]), and in the 19th century it was used for the basic type of thirdclass railway carriage; its modern sense of ‘mobile home’ did not develop until the late 19th century. Caravanserai ‘inn for accommodating desert caravans’ [16] comes from Persian kārwānserāī: serāī means ‘palace, inn’, and was the source, via Italian, of seraglio ‘harem’ [16].
=> caravanserai, van

caravan (n.)

1580s, from Middle French caravane, from Old French carvane, carevane "caravan" (13c.), or Medieval Latin caravana, picked up during the Crusades from Persian karwan "group of desert travelers" (which Klein connects to Sanskrit karabhah "camel"). Used in English for "vehicle" 17c., especially for a covered cart. Hence, in modern British use (from 1930s), often a rough equivalent of the U.S. mobile home.

1. Pendergood had shovelled the sand out of the caravan.

彭德古德把旅行拖車裏的沙子鏟了出來。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Each caravan is equipped for four persons.

每個活動房的設備可供4人使用。

來自柯林斯例句

3. The caravan was raked with bullets.

車隊遭到了子彈掃射。

來自柯林斯例句

4. The community adviser gave us a caravan to live in.

社區顧問給了我們一間活動住房棲身.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. He packed off his wife and children to stay in a caravan in Wales.

他把妻兒打發到在威爾士的一輛旅行拖車上去住。

來自柯林斯例句