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单词 unseaworthy
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Definition of unseaworthy in English:

unseaworthy

adjectiveʌnˈsiːwəːðiˌənˈsiˌwərði
  • (of a boat or ship) not in a good enough condition to sail on the sea.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In other words, a boat, already known to be too unseaworthy to make the distance, could simply be allowed to founder, without the government appearing to have any involvement whatsoever.
    • It was in an attempt to catch substandard, unseaworthy ships that the European Union toughened its port inspection procedures following the Erika incident off the French coast.
    • It is hard to imagine what makes people desperate enough to leave their country to prowl the oceans in unseaworthy boats.
    • Marine investigators probing the mysterious loss of a Scottish trawler with all hands 27 years ago have obtained crucial new evidence that the boat was unseaworthy.
    • We have even read stories of clients of the smugglers being forced at gunpoint by Indonesian armed forces to join and stay on obviously unseaworthy boats.
    • We have been accommodating to the boats that are unseaworthy for 18 months now.
    • He exposed them to great danger, sending them off in overcrowded and unseaworthy boats that experienced engine failure, or sank.
    • In fact the vendor knew that she was unseaworthy.
    • Arguing that profiteering shipowners and unscrupulous insurers were collaborating in sending out unseaworthy vessels, the play led to popular outrage and a change in the law.
    • The boats he boarded were unseaworthy and one became lost at sea for fourteen days after a ferocious storm.
    • The draft report suggests the 26 ft open-deck fishing boat was unseaworthy, overloaded and unstable.
    • According to survivors' accounts, the boat was so unseaworthy that 21 people had earlier asked to be put back to shore and were left on a small Indonesian island.
    • The bomber scored a direct hit on the bridge area, but it did not render the ship unseaworthy.
    • In October 2001, over 400 asylum-seekers departed from Indonesia in an overcrowded, unseaworthy boat bound for Australia.
    • He is launched onto the Indian Ocean in an unseaworthy boat bound for Australia.
    • One of the overcrowded, unseaworthy boats later ran aground off the coast of Timor and three Iraqi men drowned.
    • Instead, in his view, they may have knowingly allowed the heavily overloaded and unseaworthy boat to leave Indonesia and sink soon afterwards.
    • Why have they chosen to put their lives at risk by travelling in cramped conditions aboard unseaworthy vessels?
    • The jury later wrote to the coroner, deploring the fact that an unseaworthy ship could put to sea with a drunken captain.
    • Redrawing the national border for migration purposes will force desperate asylum seekers to try to sail in unseaworthy boats all the way to the mainland, evading and fleeing from warships along the way.

Derivatives

  • unseaworthiness

  • nounʌnˈsiːwəːðɪnəsˌənˈsiˌwərðinəs
    • The burden of proving that the ship was not seaworthy and that unseaworthiness caused or contributed to the loss or damage complained of, lies on the defendants.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • She was also detained by the United States Coastguard for unseaworthiness.
      • Whenever loss or damage has resulted from unseaworthiness, the burden of proving the exercise of due diligence shall be on the carrier or other person claiming exemption under this Article.
      • To satisfy the definition of unseaworthiness it must exist at the commencement of the voyage.
      • That is because the essence of unseaworthiness as a cause of loss or damage is that the unseaworthy ship is unfit to meet the peril.
 
 

Definition of unseaworthy in US English:

unseaworthy

adjectiveˌənˈsiˌwərðiˌənˈsēˌwərT͟Hē
  • (of a boat or ship) not in a good enough condition to sail on the sea.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • We have been accommodating to the boats that are unseaworthy for 18 months now.
    • According to survivors' accounts, the boat was so unseaworthy that 21 people had earlier asked to be put back to shore and were left on a small Indonesian island.
    • Instead, in his view, they may have knowingly allowed the heavily overloaded and unseaworthy boat to leave Indonesia and sink soon afterwards.
    • It was in an attempt to catch substandard, unseaworthy ships that the European Union toughened its port inspection procedures following the Erika incident off the French coast.
    • Arguing that profiteering shipowners and unscrupulous insurers were collaborating in sending out unseaworthy vessels, the play led to popular outrage and a change in the law.
    • In October 2001, over 400 asylum-seekers departed from Indonesia in an overcrowded, unseaworthy boat bound for Australia.
    • It is hard to imagine what makes people desperate enough to leave their country to prowl the oceans in unseaworthy boats.
    • He exposed them to great danger, sending them off in overcrowded and unseaworthy boats that experienced engine failure, or sank.
    • The boats he boarded were unseaworthy and one became lost at sea for fourteen days after a ferocious storm.
    • The jury later wrote to the coroner, deploring the fact that an unseaworthy ship could put to sea with a drunken captain.
    • Redrawing the national border for migration purposes will force desperate asylum seekers to try to sail in unseaworthy boats all the way to the mainland, evading and fleeing from warships along the way.
    • Why have they chosen to put their lives at risk by travelling in cramped conditions aboard unseaworthy vessels?
    • We have even read stories of clients of the smugglers being forced at gunpoint by Indonesian armed forces to join and stay on obviously unseaworthy boats.
    • Marine investigators probing the mysterious loss of a Scottish trawler with all hands 27 years ago have obtained crucial new evidence that the boat was unseaworthy.
    • The draft report suggests the 26 ft open-deck fishing boat was unseaworthy, overloaded and unstable.
    • He is launched onto the Indian Ocean in an unseaworthy boat bound for Australia.
    • One of the overcrowded, unseaworthy boats later ran aground off the coast of Timor and three Iraqi men drowned.
    • The bomber scored a direct hit on the bridge area, but it did not render the ship unseaworthy.
    • In other words, a boat, already known to be too unseaworthy to make the distance, could simply be allowed to founder, without the government appearing to have any involvement whatsoever.
    • In fact the vendor knew that she was unseaworthy.
 
 
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