liner

英 ['laɪnə] 美['laɪnɚ]

CET6TEM4CET4IELTS考研中低频词常用词汇

复数: liners;

liner 游轮，衬里

来自line,线，引申词义航线，渡轮，衬里。

liner: liner: see line
liner (n.1): "ship belonging to a shipping line," 1838, from line (n.) on notion of a succession of ships plying between ports along regular "lines." Line in this sense first attested 1786 in reference to stagecoaches. Cosmetics sense first recorded 1926, short for eye-liner. The type of baseball hit was so called from 1874 (line drive attested from 1899).
liner (n.2): "person who fits a lining to," 1610s, agent noun from line (v.1). Meaning "thing serving as a lining" is from 1869. Liner notes in a record album are attested from 1953.

1. It became impractical to make a business trip by ocean liner.: 乘坐远洋班轮进行商务旅行变得不合时宜了。

3. Jumbo jets somehow lack the glamour of the transatlantic liner.: 大型喷气式飞机不像橫渡大西洋的客轮那么引人注目.