plying

英 [ˈplaɪɪŋ]

美 [ˈplaɪɪŋ]

v.  定时往来; 定期行驶; (娴熟地)使用
ply的现在分词

柯林斯词典

• VERB 不断供给
  If youplysomeonewithfood or drink, you keep giving them more of it.
  1. Elsie, who had been told that Maria wasn't well, plied her with food...
     埃尔茜得知玛丽亚身体不适，就不停地给她弄吃的。
  2. The poor priest was plied with drink at a dinner party.
     宴会上不断有人给可怜的牧师灌酒。
• VERB 不断问；追问
  If youplysomeonewithquestions, you keep asking them questions.
  1. Giovanni plied him with questions with the intention of prolonging his stay.
     乔瓦尼一个劲儿地问他问题，想要拖住他。
• VERB 从事，经营（尤指街头销售或服务）
  If youplya trade, you do a particular kind of work regularly as your job, especially a kind of work that involves trying to sell goods or services to people outdoors.
  1. ...the market traders noisily plying their wares...
     大声吆喝货物的集市商贩
  2. It's illegal for unmarked minicabs to ply for hire.
     无标志的电话预订出租车沿街拉客是非法的。
• VERB （船、飞机或车辆）定期往返于
  If a ship, aircraft, or vehiclepliesa route, it makes regular journeys along that route.
  1. Eighteen boats plied the 1,000 miles of river along a trading route...
     18艘船沿着贸易航线往返于1,000英里的河面上。
  2. The brightly-coloured boats ply between the islands.
     色彩明艳的船只往来于岛屿之间。

双语例句

• Some rebalancing of global flows might lessen the impact of plying the longer route: Gulf oil bound for Europe could be dispatched East and African oil bound for Asia sent to Europe instead.
  一些在国际间石油流动的重新调整可能减轻使用长距离路线的影响：供给欧洲的海湾石油可以分派到东方，而供给亚洲的非洲石油可以运送到欧洲。
• He had the impassive face of the professional gambler and it was known that he also had something to do with dope smuggling over the Mexican border and from the ships plying the lanes of the Oriental oceans.
  他有一张职业赌徒的无表情的面孔。据悉，他同越过墨西哥边界来往于远东海洋航道的毒品走私活动也有关系。
• Mr Guan said Bangkok and Beijing should turn the tragedy into an opportunity to improve security for commercial vessels plying the Mekong.
  管先生说，曼谷和北京应该将悲剧转变成一个机会，以改善来往于湄公河上的商船的安全。
• The sight of half-laden container ships plying the seas is another clue that this is no ordinary recession.
  空载一半的集装箱船航行过海，从另一个角度提醒我们：这不是一场普通的经济衰退。
• The area is served by many buses plying between different routes.
  这一区有很多巴士定时川行于不同的路线。
• Here they fell to, the men plying a stone jar freely, and passing round a cup.
  他们就在这里开始吃饭，男人们还随意地从一个石头罐子里倒酒喝，把一个杯子轮流传着。
• Facing declining business in North America and Europe, arms~ s are plying the routes to growth markets on the western shores of the pacific.
  面临着北美和欧洲的商业衰退，军火生产商正往返于通往太平洋西岸迅速发展的市场的航线上。
• That is the bus plying between downtown and our school.
  那是往返于市中心和我们学校之间的车。
• But Mr Wang is plying a dangerous trade.
  但王昌从事着一种危险的业务。
• But just when at that swallow's soar Your neck turned so, He watched the boats plying as across the Thames.
  但刚才你看飞燕穿梭，蓦然回首，他望着在泰晤士河上来回穿梭的船只。