banana boat
noun [ C ] uk/bəˈnɑː.nə ˌbəʊt/ us/bəˈnæn.ə ˌboʊt/
香蕉船（用于从热带国度运输香蕉，有时候也用来载客。）
a boat designed to carry bananas from tropical places, sometimes also used by passengers to travel on
My dad came to New York City from Puerto Rico in 1937 literally on a banana boat. 1937年，我父亲从波多黎各来到纽约市，乘坐的真是一艘香蕉船。
We left England on September 9th by a banana boat bound for the West Indies. 我们于9月9日乘香蕉船离开英格兰前往西印度群岛。
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- He vividly describes the small villages, markets, white sands and banana boats of Jamaica.
- Dorothy loved travel and thought nothing of sleeping on a luggage rack or the deck of a banana boat.
- I met him on a banana boat in which I was working my passage from Southampton to Rio de Janeiro.
- Take a banana boat from the Kent coast to the Dominican Republic, Panama and Costa Rica and back.
- His intellectual curiosity leads him to fascinating parts of the world, often in interesting ways - across the Atlantic in a banana boat, for example.