Word · CEFR C2 · Frequency #12183
mariner
水手；海员
a man who serves as a sailor
- 1.
Synonym of sailor, particularly one on a maritime vessel.
海员的同义词,尤指在航海船只上的人
- 2.
A player on the team the Seattle Mariners.
西雅图水手队的球员
- 3.
a man who serves as a sailor
水手
海员的同义词,尤指在航海船只上的人；西雅图水手队的球员；水手
In use
The mariner checked the ropes before the storm arrived.
Many mariners spend long months at sea without seeing land.
A mariner must know how to read the stars to navigate at night.
adjective + mariner
The old mariner told stories of distant lands.
老水手讲述了远方的故事。
mariner + verb (past tense)
The mariner sailed across the Atlantic.
水手横渡了大西洋。
plural mariners + prepositional phrase
Mariners from various nations shared their knowledge.
Connections
Collocations
- merchant mariner
- 商船船员
- After earning his certification, he became a merchant mariner.获得证书后，他成了一名商船船员。
- master mariner
- 资深船长
- He worked as a master mariner on cargo ships for decades.他在货轮上做了几十年资深船长。
- seasoned mariner
- 经验丰富的水手
- The seasoned mariner studied the clouds before setting sail.这位经验丰富的水手在起航前仔细观察云层。
- mariner's compass
- 航海罗盘
- Before GPS, a mariner's compass was essential for navigation.在GPS出现之前，航海罗盘是航行中必不可少的。
Pop culture & quotes
- It is an ancient Mariner, / And he stoppeth one of three.
- 那是一个老水手，他拦住了三人中的一个。The opening line of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1798 poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. The Mariner stops a wedding guest to recount his tale.
Learner notes
Memory Tip
看到 marine（海）联想到海，mariner 以 -er 结尾，就像 worker 一样指“做这件事的人”；常年在海上工作的人就是水手。
Context & Register
语域：formal 常见场景：海事文件、文学叙述、航海报道 该词通常用于正式或文学语境，作为 sailor 的书面同义词；日常口语中较少见。
Pronunciation & Spelling
No common word rhymes with 'mariner' (/ˈmɛrənɝ/). The words 'marine' and 'submarine' share the spelling 'marin' but pronounce the first syllable as /mə/, not /mɛr/. 'maritime' also begins with 'mar' but uses /mær/. The words 'examiner', 'container', and 'foreigner' have a similar unstressed final /ɝ/ sound but their stressed vowels differ, so they are not rhymes. Do not confuse the 'mar' in 'mariner' with the 'mar' in 'marine' or 'maritime'.
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 1，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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