raft

• n. 筏；救生艇；（美）大量
• vt. 筏運；製成筏
• vi. 乘筏
• n. (Raft)人名；(匈、瑞典)拉夫特

來自古諾斯語 raptr,木排，閥子，來自 PIE*rep,柱子，樁子。

raft

raft: [15] The ancestor of raft meant ‘beam, rafter’. This was Old Norse raptr. Not until it got into English, apparently, was it used for a ‘craft made by tying logs together’. (It should not, incidentally, be confused with the mainly American raft ‘large collection, lot’ [19], which is an alteration of Scottish English raff ‘rubbish’ – probable source of English raffish [19]. This too may well be of Scandinavian origin – Swedish has rafs ‘rubbish’.) Rafter [OE] comes from a Germanic source that was probably also responsible for raft.
=> raffish, rafter

raft (n.1)

"floating platform," late 15c., originally "rafter" (c. 1300), from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse raptr "log" (Old Norse -pt- pronounced as -ft-), related to Middle Low German rafter, rachter "rafter" (see rafter).

raft (n.2)

"large collection," 1830, variant of raff "heap, large amount," from Middle English raf (compare raffish, riffraff); form and sense associated with raft (n.1).

raft (v.)

1680s, from raft (n.1). Related: Rafted; rafting.

1. The crew spent two days and nights in their raft.

船員在救生筏上呆了兩天兩夜。

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2. I made for the life raft and hung on for dear life.

我遊到救生筏前，死命地抓住它。

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3. The raft gathered speed as the current dragged it toward the falls.

水流將木筏拽向瀑布，木筏的速度越來越快。

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4. The raft bobbed along more quietly.

小木筏更加平靜地漂浮向前。

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5. I didn't count on his capsizing the raft.

我沒有想到他會把筏子弄翻。

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