a yawl + verb
A yawl was moored at the dock.
一艘双桅小帆船停泊在码头。
船载小艇；舰载划艇；小型船只,通常由四到六个桨划动；一种前后桅帆船,主桅和后桅,后桅在舵柱后面；舰载小艇；杂用船
a two-masted fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel, with the mizzen mast set abaft the rudder post
小型船只,通常由四到六个桨划动
A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars.
一种前后桅帆船,主桅和后桅,后桅在舵柱后面
A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen stepped abaft the rudder post.
The old yawl has two masts and sails well in strong wind.
这艘旧双桅纵帆船有两根桅杆，在大风中航行得很好。
用法提示：yawl 作主语，指双桅纵帆船。
They moored the yawl near the harbor and went ashore.
他们把双桅纵帆船停泊在港口附近，然后上岸了。
用法提示：yawl 作宾语，表示一艘双桅纵帆船。
The two yawls raced side by side across the lake.
那两艘双桅纵帆船并排驶过湖面。
用法提示：yawls 是 yawl 的复数形式，指多艘双桅纵帆船。
A yawl was moored at the dock.
一艘双桅小帆船停泊在码头。
He sailed a yawl across the bay.
他驾驶一艘双桅小帆船横渡海湾。
grammar · medium
易错句子We yawled to the island.
正确表达We sailed a yawl to the island.
yawl是名词，意为小帆船，不能用作动词表示航行；应使用‘sail a yawl’或‘go by yawl’。
grammar · medium
易错句子We took yawl to the shore.
正确表达We took a yawl to the shore.
yawl是可数名词，单数形式前需要冠词或限定词；中文学习者常遗漏冠词。
yawl的后桅位于舵柱之后，ketch的后桅在舵柱之前
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