| 单词 | trireme |
| 释义 | trireme (once / 11784 pages) n WORD FAMILY trireme: triremes USAGE EXAMPLESHe scanned the slips for some sort of magic vessel—a trireme, maybe, or a dragon-headed warship like he’d seen in his dreams. Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune(2011) Our triremes are unchallenged on Long Island Sound, but those stupid giant eagles dominate our airspace. Rick Riordan, Blood of Olympus(2014) Homer and Herodotus were his guides, Brooke wrote to his mother, as he sailed over the “sapphire sea, swept by ghost of triremes and quinqueremes.” The New Yorker(Apr 23, 2015) n ancient Greek or Roman galley or warship having three tiers of oars on each side Hyper galley (classical antiquity) a crescent-shaped seagoing vessel propelled by oars |
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