a flat structure made of pieces of wood tied together and used as a boat or floating platform 木排；筏 Extra ExamplesTopics Transport by waterb2They built a raft of logs. 他们造了一只木排。 He was found floating on a raft. 人们发现他在木筏上漂着。 The raft floated away down the river. 木排顺河漂走了。 We paddled the raft to the shore. 我们将木筏划向岸边。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- life
- inflatable
- rubber
- …
- build
- make
- inflate
- …
- float
- capsize
- overturn
- …
- race
- on a/the raft
- onto a/the raft
a small boat made of rubber or plastic that is filled with air 橡皮艇；充气船 an inflatable raft 充气橡皮筏 The two airmen inflated the life raft. 两位飞行员给救生筏充了气。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- life
- inflatable
- rubber
- …
- build
- make
- inflate
- …
- float
- capsize
- overturn
- …
- race
- on a/the raft
- onto a/the raft
- [usually singular] raft of something (informal)
a large number or amount of something 大量；许多 a whole raft of new proposals 大量新的提议
Word Originsenses 1 to 2 late Middle English (in the sense ‘beam, rafter’): from Old Norse raptr ‘rafter’.sense 3 mid 19th cent.: alteration of dialect raff ‘abundance’ (perhaps of Scandinavian origin), by association with raft in the sense ‘floating mass’.