captain the ship
collocation指挥船只；担任船长
He captained the ship across the Atlantic.
他指挥船只横渡大西洋。
担任…的队长/船长/机长；指挥
captaining — present participle of captain
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担任…的队长/船长/机长；指挥
to act as captain of a team, ship, or aircraft
She will captain the team in the championship match.
她将在冠军赛中率领这支队伍。
担任船长。
To act as captain
指挥船只、飞机或运动队。
To exercise command of a ship, aircraft or sports team.
captain
Base
原形
captains
3rd person
第三人称单数
captaining
-ing
现在分词
captained
Past
过去式
captained
Past participle
过去分词
He captains the team.
他领导这个团队。
She captained the ship.
她曾指挥那艘船。
He is captaining the expedition.
他正领导这次探险。
规则动词：过去式和过去分词加-ed。
He captained the ship through the storm safely.
他指挥船只安全地通过了风暴。
The experienced officer is captaining the rescue operation.
这位经验丰富的军官正在指挥救援行动。
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指挥船只；担任船长
He captained the ship across the Atlantic.
他指挥船只横渡大西洋。
指挥飞机；担任机长
She captained the plane on a long flight.
她在一趟长途飞行中担任机长。
率领球队；担任队长
He captained the team to victory.
他率领球队取得了胜利。
我现在是船长了。
Meme from the film Captain Phillips (2013), used to suggest someone has suddenly taken control.
出自电影《菲利普船长》(2013)，常被用作梗，表示某人突然接管了局面。
啊，船长！我的船长！
Line from Walt Whitman's poem mourning Abraham Lincoln; also recited in Dead Poets Society. The captain symbolizes Lincoln.
出自沃尔特·惠特曼悼念林肯的诗作，在《死亡诗社》中也出现过。诗中“船长”象征林肯。
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想象船长戴着cap（帽子）站在船头指挥，动词captain就是‘担任…的船长/队长，指挥’。记住cap，就记住captain。
语域：neutral 常见场景：sports、shipping、aviation 动词 captain 通常用于中性或较正式的语境，多出现在体育、航海和航空等场景，表示担任队长、船长或机长的职责。
captain 的 -tain 读作 /tən/，不是 /teɪn/。certain、curtain、mountain、fountain、Britain 都有相同的 -tain 拼写和弱读音尾 /tən/，但重音元音不同，所以不押韵。button 也有 /tən/ 音尾，但拼写是 -ton。没有常见单词与 captain 完全押韵。
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