Word · Frequency #1680
captaining
担任…的队长/船长/机长；指挥
captaining is the present participle of captain.
to act as captain of a team, ship, or aircraft
- 1.
To act as captain
担任船长。
- 2.
To exercise command of a ship, aircraft or sports team.
指挥船只、飞机或运动队。
担任船长。；指挥船只、飞机或运动队。；率领；指挥
In use
She will captain the team in the championship match.
He captained the ship through the storm safely.
The experienced officer is captaining the rescue operation.
Verb forms
base captain · third person captains · -ing captaining · past captained · past participle captained
规则动词：过去式和过去分词加-ed。
Connections
Collocations
- captain the ship
- 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。
- captain the plane
- 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。
- captain the team
- 率领球队；担任队长
- He captained the team to victory.他率领球队取得了胜利。
Pop culture & quotes
- I'm the captain now.
- 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。
- O Captain! My Captain!
- 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.
Learner notes
Memory Tip
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。
Context & Register
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。
Pronunciation & Spelling
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。
High-value vocabulary
该词属于 Oxford 核心词汇，值得优先掌握常见搭配和句型。
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 4，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
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