caravan

• n. （可供居住的）拖车，大篷车；（穿过沙漠地带的）旅行队（如商队）；活动住宅；移民列车
• vi. 乘拖车度假；参加旅行队旅行

来自波斯语。

1. a procession (of wagons or mules or camels) traveling together in single file;

"we were part of a caravan of almost a thousand camels"

"they joined the wagon train for safety"

2. a camper equipped with living quarters

caravan

caravan: [16] Caravans have no etymological connection with cars, nor with char-a-bancs. The word comes ultimately from Persian kārwān ‘group of desert travellers’, and came into English via French caravane. Its use in English for ‘vehicle’ dates from the 17th century, but to begin with it referred to a covered cart for carrying passengers and goods (basis of the shortened form van [19]), and in the 19th century it was used for the basic type of thirdclass railway carriage; its modern sense of ‘mobile home’ did not develop until the late 19th century. Caravanserai ‘inn for accommodating desert caravans’ [16] comes from Persian kārwānserāī: serāī means ‘palace, inn’, and was the source, via Italian, of seraglio ‘harem’ [16].
=> caravanserai, van

caravan (n.)

1580s, from Middle French caravane, from Old French carvane, carevane "caravan" (13c.), or Medieval Latin caravana, picked up during the Crusades from Persian karwan "group of desert travelers" (which Klein connects to Sanskrit karabhah "camel"). Used in English for "vehicle" 17c., especially for a covered cart. Hence, in modern British use (from 1930s), often a rough equivalent of the U.S. mobile home.

a caravan site/park

旅行拖车停车场

牛津词典

a Gypsy caravan

吉卜赛人的大篷车

牛津词典

...the old caravan routes from Central Asia to China.

从中亚到中国的古老的旅行线路

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Geoff connected the caravan to the car.

杰弗把旅行用的住屋拖车挂在汽车上.

辞典例句

A caravan of Persian travelers was passing by.

一支波斯旅行者的车队正经过.

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Caravan Soldiers become Foot Mercenaries and Foot Hired Blades.

商队士兵会升级到步战雇佣兵和步战职业杀手.

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Footman: Prince Arthas , we've spotted an undead caravan carrying a large load of plagued grain.

步兵: 阿尔塞斯王子, 我们发现一支不死族的拖车队伍装载了大量受感染的谷物.

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Your supply caravan has arrived. Thank you my lord.

你的补给车队已经到达,非常感谢你.

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Before entering it, he called together all the members of the caravan.

在进入森林之前, 他把商队的所有人员叫到一起.

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They recognized that the fully loaded carts and the scattered bones belonged to the former caravan.

他们认出了商队甲装满货物的牛车,和散落各处的人畜骨架.

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He thought that life in a caravan on the open road would be an exciting adventure.

他想如果坐在大篷车开在宽阔的大路上会是很刺激很有趣.

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A jest falls from the speechless caravan.

寂静的大篷车传来一阵暴笑.

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Our happy caravan has already taken its first step, heading for Liaoning Province.

我们快乐车队现在已经踏出了第一步, 正在向辽宁前进.

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I've stayed in 5 star hotels, caves and dessert caravan tents.

我住过五星级饭店 、 洞穴还有沙漠里的帐篷.

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Rocky : I don't understand why we can't all stay in a caravan. It's cheaper.

我真不明白,为什么我们大家不能一起都住在宿营车里呢? 这样可以便宜很多呢.

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We're heading for the caravan with the sun painted on it.

我们正走向画着太阳的大篷车.

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A caravan of cars winds its way out towards the edge of town.

车队朝着城镇边缘蜿蜒前进.

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Some went ahead of the caravan and came upon the whatnot tree.

走在商队前面的人来到了无名树下.

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What are you going to sleep A tent or a caravan?

你们要睡那里?帐蓬或是旅行车?

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Deej organized a caravan of Ewoks to voyage to the barren , rocky landscape of the Gorax.

迪吉召集了一支伊渥克马队,前往哥拉克斯人所在的贫瘠嶙峋的荒原.

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We were part of a caravan of almost a thousand camels.

我们是近千头骆驼组成的驼队的一部分.

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I'd like to book a caravan please.

请问我应该怎样预定一个宿营车位?

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Our caravan sleeps six in comfort.

我们居住的拖车可舒舒服服地睡六个人.

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The community adviser gave us a caravan to live in.

社区顾问给了我们一间活动住房栖身.

《简明英汉词典》

The two soldiers rode up to the head of the caravan.

两个士兵骑马赶到旅行队的前头.

辞典例句

" Why don't you keep my three, sir , and make up a caravan? "

“ 老者,留下我的三匹, 凑一把儿 吧 ? ”

汉英文学 - 骆驼祥子

He packed off his wife and children to stay in a caravan in Wales.

他把妻儿打发到在威尔士的一辆旅行拖车上去住。

柯林斯例句

For six months they camped out in a caravan in a meadow at the back of the house.

有6个月时间，他们宿在屋后草地上的一辆旅行拖车里。

柯林斯例句

Each caravan is equipped for four persons.

每个活动房的设备可供4人使用。

柯林斯例句