| 单词 | atlantic ferry |
| 释义 | > as lemmasAtlantic ferry 4. Chiefly humorous or ironic. A fast or regular long-distance ocean crossing by ship. Chiefly in Atlantic ferry. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > [noun] > shipping business or trade > ferrying > jocularly of a long passage ferry1839 1839 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 21 Sept. The communication between this country and America is performed with so much rapidity, and in so short a time, by steamers, that it has been designated the Atlantic Ferry. 1883 Cent. Mag. Feb. 578/2 The ‘Atlantic ferry’ will take you across in a little more than a week. 1907 Daily Chron. 11 June 10/4 Nearly all the Australian States are now offering assisted passages to selected immigrants... Why should not the Imperial Government take a hand in this, and in certain cases contribute the other £6, and thus realise the ‘free ferry’? 1930 C. E. Lee (title) The Blue Riband: the romance of the Atlantic ferry. 2003 D. A. Butler Age of Cunard iii. 68 The North Atlantic run..was becoming known as the Atlantic Ferry. < as lemmas |
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