caravans

英 [ˈkærəvænz]

美 [ˈkærəˌvænz]

n.  旅行拖车，宿营拖车(无发动机，由其他车拖动，多供度假时住宿用); (供居住用的)有篷马车，大篷车; (尤指穿越沙漠的)旅行队，车队
caravan的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• 旅行拖车;大篷车;房车
  Acaravanis a vehicle without an engine that can be pulled by a car or van. It contains beds and cooking equipment so that people can live or spend their holidays in it.

in AM, usually use 美国英语通常用 trailer


• N-COUNT (带着牲口的一群人结伴而行的)旅行队;车队
  Acaravanis a group of people and animals or vehicles who travel together.
  1. ...the old caravan routes from Central Asia to China.
     从中亚到中国的古老的旅行线路

双语例句

• Not far from it is the old suspension bridge over the river, formerly busy with caravans on the Southern Silk Route to Burma and India.
  距离一条河流上的老吊桥不远，从前商人马帮沿着南方丝绸之路到缅甸和印度都频繁地经过这里。
• Actually, it was many smaller caravans traveling together to protect themselves against bandits.
  实际上那只是很多小商队为了防御土匪而结伴同行罢了。
• The Gipsy traveled in caravans.
  吉普赛人坐着大篷车旅行。
• My friends call me penelope, and let's just say those slavers don't take too kindly to people disrupting their caravans.
  狂追：我的朋友叫我菲娜拉普，嗯，你只要知道奴隶贩子一向对打搅他们商队的人不怎么友善。
• Non-motor vehicles and caravans entering or leaving the country shall submit to inspection by the Frontier Inspection Station.
  进出国境的非机动车辆和马帮等，必须接受边防检查站的检查。
• In the park, nomads were coming down from the summer pastures each day with camel caravans.
  在公园里，每天都有游牧者带着骆驼队从夏季牧场走下来。
• Many caravans are let by private individuals through adverts in papers or shop windows.
  许多旅行拖车由私人通过在报纸或商店橱窗上做广告出租。
• We would hear their caravans approaching our neighborhood, the mewling of their sheep, the "baaing" of their goats, the jingle of bells around their camels'necks.
  我们能听到他们的牧群走近的声音：绵羊咪咪，山羊咩咩，还有那叮当作响的驼铃。
• In the past, when caravans had come to the whatnot tree, the people had eaten its poisonous fruits and died in their sleep during the night.
  在过去，当商队来到这棵无名树下，那些吃了这毒果的人都会在晚上的睡梦中死去。
• Translate the following sentence into Chinese,' The city was the last stop for the caravans on the Silk Road before all those silks and spices went by water to Europe.
  在由水路把丝绸和香料运往欧洲之前，这个城市是丝绸之路上过往商队的终点站。