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单词 navy
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navy
(nvi )
Word forms: navies
1. countable noun B2
A country's navy consists of the people it employs to fight at sea, and the ships they use.
The government announced an order for three frigates for the Royal Navy yesterday.
Her own son was also in the Navy.
...a United States navy ship.
Synonyms: fleet, warships, flotilla, armada  
2. colour B2
Something that is navy or navy-blue is very dark blue.
I mostly wore black or navy trousers.
...a navy-blue blazer.
Collocations:
join the navy
I left school in the spring of 1958 to join the navy as an officer cadet.
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We're going to try one more album and then all join the navy, do honest work, hinting at a possible split or hiatus.
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He joined the navy in 1955 as a radio operator, serving on an aircraft carrier, where he was awarded top secret cryptographic security clearance.
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He joined the navy in 1949 as an engineering cadet and passed out top of his entry.
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She joined the navy six years ago.
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navy officer
Merchant navy officer, seismologist, naval historian, author.
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He proved more liberal than might have been expected of a former navy officer.
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The former navy officer was taken to a police station to be fingerprinted before posting bail.
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Navy officer rank insignia are gold stripes worn on the lower sleeve.
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My uncle was a merchant navy officer on a petrol tanker, and a real cycling fan.
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navy patrol
Some exhibits are interactive, including a coinoperated remote-controlled boat — overloaded with model immigrants and being pursued by a navy patrol craft.
The Sun
Navy patrol crafts and other vessels in the area managed to break of the attack.
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Western navies patrol it to ensure their safe passage.
Times, Sunday Times
navy personnel
Even today there are fears that the level of drinking among navy personnel could be having an adverse effect on military readiness.
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Navy personnel and base workers have as many problems getting out as getting in.
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In the new year's honours list, unfortunately there were no navy personnel on the list for the order.
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They were found after a three-day search involving 100 people in boats and helicopters, including police, navy personnel and diving instructors.
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There were other cases of improper behaviour with the 147-strong team, comprising 127 contractors, 12 navy personnel and eight civil servants.
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navy ship
In the tiny part of the embassy that's been given over to him he faces 'all the restraints, the difficulties, that people would have, say, on a navy ship'.
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Compartments of the navy ship where sailors were sleeping were flooded.
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The base also has a modern converter system to supply the substantial power even a berthed navy ship requires.
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She had a brief career as an active navy ship.
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This was the first time a navy ship had been named in honor of a president.
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navy suit
Perhaps, no politician wears the navy suit better.
Chicago Sun-Times
But also, weirdly, a navy suit, which made him look like he had turned up to the wrong party.
Times, Sunday Times
Primarily in business, the most conspicuously qualified person will be a bloke in his mid-50s, with a financial background - and he's probably wearing a navy suit.
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There was so much dandruff and loose hair on his navy suit that someone said he looked as if he'd had a fight with a cat.
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He wore a navy suit, blue shirt and a red tie.
The Sun
navy vessel
A navy vessel and two small navy motorboats were believed to be involved in the rescue operation, which continued overnight.
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He was rescued later, after the storm, by a navy vessel.
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Navy vessels carried out 4,084 hours of patrols in 2016-17, down from 16,200 in 2010-11.
Times, Sunday Times
Studies have shown that wealth was split more equally on 18th-century pirate ships (which had written constitutions) than on the merchant navy vessels they were raiding.
Times, Sunday Times
It will include a bicycle path, and possibly also a small bridge under which navy vessels will pass on their way to the sea.
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powerful navy
It consisted of an infantry, a cavalry, an elephant corps and a powerful navy.
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The once powerful navy was reduced to a pitiful state.
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He also built a powerful navy.
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Translations:
Chinese: 海军, 深蓝色
Japanese: 海軍, 濃紺の
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