float
verbVerb Forms
Idioms Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they float | |
| he / she / it floats | |
| past simple floated | |
| past participle floated | |
| -ing form floating |
- [intransitive] + adv./prep.
to move slowly on water or in the air 浮動；漂流；飄動；飄移 A group of swans floated by. 一群天鵝緩緩遊過。 The smell of new bread floated up from the kitchen. 廚房裏飄出新鮮面包的香味。 Beautiful music came floating out of the window. 美妙的樂聲從窗口傳出。 The boats were floating gently down the river. 小船順河悠悠漂下。 Add the gnocchi and cook until they float to the surface. 加入湯團，煮到它們浮到表面。 - (figurative)
People seem to float in and out of my life. 不同的人在我的生命中出現和消失。
Extra ExamplesTopics Transport by waterb2Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- gently
- slowly
- downstream
- …
- seem to
- across
- down
- in
- …
- [intransitive]
to stay on or near the surface of a liquid and not sink 浮；漂浮 Wood floats. 木頭能浮起來。 Much of the bay is covered by floating sea ice. 海灣的大部分被漂浮的海冰覆蓋着。 - float in something
She relaxed, floating gently in the water. 她全身放鬆, 輕輕漂浮在水中。 - float on something
A plastic bag was floating on the water. 一個塑料袋漂浮在水面上。
Extra ExamplesTopics Transport by waterb2We tried to make a raft but it wouldn't float. 我們設法做了一只筏子，但它浮不起來。 Vast masses of frogspawn floated just beneath the surface. 大量的蛙卵漂浮在水面下。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- gently
- slowly
- downstream
- …
- seem to
- across
- down
- in
- …
- [transitive]
to make something move on or near the surface of a liquid 使浮動；使漂流 - float something
There wasn't enough water to float the ship. 水不夠深，船浮動不起來。 - float something + adv./prep.
They float the logs down the river to the towns. 他們把原木沿河漂運至城鎮。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- gently
- slowly
- downstream
- …
- seem to
- across
- down
- in
- …
- float something
- [intransitive] + adv./prep. (literary)
to walk or move in a smooth and easy way 輕盈走動；飄然移動 - [transitive] float something
to suggest an idea or a plan for other people to consider 提出，提請考慮（想法或計劃） - [transitive] float something (
business 商業 to sell shares in a company or business to the public for the first time （公司或企業）首次公開發行（股票），使上市 The company was floated on the stock market in 2014. 這家公司於 2014 年上市。 Shares were floated at 585p. 股票最初上市價爲 5 英鎊 85 便士。
- [transitive, intransitive] float (something) (
economics 經濟學 if a government floats its country’s money or allows it to float, it allows its value to change freely according to the value of the money of other countries （使貨幣匯率）自由浮動 The government decided to allow the peso to float freely. 政府決定讓比索自由浮動。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- freely
- allow something to
on water/in air水上；空中
walk lightly飄然走動
suggest idea提出想法
business/economics商業；經濟學
Word OriginOld English flotian (verb), of Germanic origin and related to fleet ‘move or pass quickly’, reinforced in Middle English by Old French floter, also from Germanic.
Idioms
float somebody’s boat
float/walk on air
to feel very happy 歡天喜地；得意揚揚 Most couples feel they are walking on air on their wedding day. 大多數夫婦覺得他們在結婚那天是在空中漫步。