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at/in a dockyard
表示地点时常用介词 at；若强调在厂区内部也可用 in。
Ships are built and repaired at the dockyard.
船只在造船厂建造和修理。
船厂；造船厂
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船厂；造船厂
a place by the water where ships are built, fitted out, or repaired
Ships are built and repaired at the dockyard.
船只在造船厂建造和修理。
修理或装备船舶的地方
A place where ships are repaired or outfitted.
水边建造、装配或修理船舶的场所
an establishment on the waterfront where vessels are built or fitted out or repaired
The old dockyard closed after the navy moved its ships to another port.
那座老造船厂在海军把船只转移到另一个港口后关闭了。
Workers at the dockyard repaired the fishing boats before the storm season.
船厂工人在暴风季节来临前修理了渔船。
Many dockyards along the coast now build cruise ships instead of warships.
沿海的许多船厂如今建造游轮而非军舰。
表示地点时常用介词 at；若强调在厂区内部也可用 in。
Ships are built and repaired at the dockyard.
船只在造船厂建造和修理。
dockyard 作定语可直接修饰名词，例如 a dockyard worker（造船厂工人）。
The dockyard workers repair the fishing boats.
造船厂工人修理渔船。
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The city has two large dockyard.
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The city has two large dockyards.
dockyard 是可数名词，复数形式为 dockyards；two 后面要用复数。
Not this
They built the ship in dockyard.
Use this
They built the ship in a dockyard.
dockyard 是单数可数名词，前面需要加限定词（如 a）；不能裸用。
Not this
They dockyarded the boat for repairs.
Use this
They docked the boat at the dockyard for repairs.
dockyard 是名词，不能当动词用；表示“使船入坞/停靠”用动词 dock，地点用 at the dockyard。
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海军造船厂
The ship was built in the naval dockyard.
这艘船是在海军造船厂建造的。
皇家造船厂
She visited the royal dockyard to see the historic ships.
她参观了皇家造船厂去看那些历史船只。
船厂工人
Dockyard workers repaired the cargo ship overnight.
船厂工人彻夜修理那艘货船。
船厂起重机
A giant dockyard crane lifted the engine into place.
一台巨大的船厂起重机把发动机吊装到位。
在船厂工作
He has worked in a dockyard for over ten years.
他在船厂工作已有十多年了。
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dock（船坞）+ yard（院子）→ 造船修船的厂区。
语域：formal 常见场景：naval operations、shipbuilding industry、historical writing dockyard 通常用于较正式的书面或官方语境，多指船舶建造、装配或维修的场所，日常口语中较少见。
押韵分组：与'dockyard'第一音节'dock'押韵的词有lock /lɑk/、rock /rɑk/、sock /sɑk/（均以/ɑk/结尾）。拼写相近但注意重音：yard、hard、card 以/ɑrd/结尾，与'dockyard'的第二音节'yard'发音相似，但整个词重音在第一音节，所以它们不与整个词押韵。注意'dockyard'以'-yard'结尾，而'yard'本身拼写相同。
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