Convoy

(noun.) the act of escorting while in transit.

(noun.) a collection of merchant ships with an escort of warships.

(noun.) a procession of land vehicles traveling together.

(verb.) escort in transit; 'the trucks convoyed the cars across the battle zone'; 'the warships convoyed the merchant ships across the Pacific'.

校对:惠特尼

• The doctor-seeking messenger meets the doctor halfway, coming under convoy of police. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I sent a gunboat also as a convoy. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• As the gunboats were going around to Donelson by the Tennessee, Ohio and Cumberland rivers, I directed Thayer to turn about and go under their convoy. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Driving in convoy is not unpleasant if you are the first car and I settled back in the seat and watched the country. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• It is a hot day; he comes in panting; she must convoy him to the kitchen, and see with her own eyes that his water-bowl is replenished. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and we lay in wait for it and attacked it. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• A force of seven hundred men had come out from Mecca to convoy home another caravan, and they encountered a large raiding party of three hundred. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• None of the trucks had lights and they were moving down the road in a long convoy. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• A million veteran fighting-men from Helium's thin waterways man the battleships, the transports, and the convoys, he replied. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Supplies for armies of then unheard-of size could not be carried in convoys, and the French soon became familiar with 'living on the country. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• At Thark lie the transports for the green warriors of Tars Tarkas, nine hundred large troopships, and with them their convoys. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• The Romans blockaded, cut up convoys, attacked stragglers, and ran away whenever Hannibal appeared. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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