a large wooden container for transporting goods 大木箱，板条箱（运货用） The spider was found hiding in a crate of bananas. 发现蜘蛛藏在一只装着香蕉的箱子里。
Extra ExamplesTheir possessions had all been packed into shipping crates. 他们的物品都装进了运输包装箱里。 They packed the books into the crates. 他们把书装进了箱子。 They stacked the crates in the corner of the yard. 他们把板条箱堆在院子的角落里。 a company specializing in shipping crates 专门运输货箱的公司 a crate of oranges 一箱橘子
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- metal
- plastic
- wooden
- …
- pile
- stack
- pile
- stack
- pack something in
- …
- contain something
- crate of
a container made of plastic or metal divided into small sections, for transporting or storing bottles 塑料分格箱，金属分格箱（运送或存放瓶子用） An old man was sitting on an upturned beer crate. 一个老人坐在一只倒放的啤酒箱上。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- metal
- plastic
- wooden
- …
- pile
- stack
- pile
- stack
- pack something in
- …
- contain something
- crate of
the amount of something contained in a crate 一箱（的量） Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- metal
- plastic
- wooden
- …
- pile
- stack
- pile
- stack
- pack something in
- …
- contain something
- crate of
Word Originlate Middle English: perhaps related to Dutch krat ‘tailboard of a wagon’, earlier ‘box of a coach’, of unknown origin.