(1) 作表语。例如:
The firm managed to stay afloat">afloat during the recession. 在经济衰退期间, 公司设法渡过了难关。
(2) 作宾语补足语。例句:
He kept the business afloat">afloat. 他努力使商行维持下去。
4.
(指谣言)传播;流传(of rumours) being generally talked about;circulating
(1) 作表语。例如:
It's afloat">afloat that she is going to marry. 传说她要结婚。
(2) 作后置定语。例如:
Credit, owing to the reports afloat">afloat, was no longer to be had. 借款吧,由于社会上所传的那些消息,已借不到了。
(3) 作宾语补足语。例如:
There's a story afloat">afloat that he'll resign. 有个传闻说他要辞职。
二、
afloat
的搭配
1. be afloat
例如:
Stories were afloat of a mysterious figure being occasionally seen in some old overgrown track way or other, remote from turnpike roads... 大家纷纷传说离开康庄大道很远的地方某处簇叶丛生的林中小径上,偶尔有人见到一个神秘的人影……
2. keep /remain / stay afloat
例如:
The Boat took a lot of water But remained afloat. 那艘船进了大量的水,却依然漂浮着。
The ship was listing badly but still kept afloat. 船倾侧得很厉害, 但却仍然漂浮不沉.
The Orpheum Wiener House stayed afloat all through the Great Depression. 从大萧条开始到结束,俄尔甫香肠之家一直没有垮。
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