Buoy

(noun.) bright-colored; a float attached by rope to the seabed to mark channels in a harbor or underwater hazards.

(verb.) mark with a buoy.

(verb.) keep afloat; 'The life vest buoyed him up'.

(verb.) float on the surface of water.

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• Then you have some secret hope to buoy you up and please you with whispers of the future? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• A cry for the life-buoy passed from mouth to mouth. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The explosion took place and the sloop was torn into atoms, in fact, nothing was left but the buye [buoy] and cable. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The emigrants embarked by hundreds, and unfurling their sails with rude hands, made strange havoc of buoy and cordage. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• When the gas holder is full it is buoyed up by the lighter gas, and occupies an elevated position, and as its supply is used up, the gas holder settles down into the water. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Buoyed up by water or mud, they may have got along. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I was tossed into the sea near the shore, and, buoyed up by my life-belt, I managed to keep myself afloat till the waves landed me on the beach. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• These qualities render it peculiarly serviceable for the stopping of vessels of different kinds, for floats, buoys, swimming-belts or jackets, artificial limbs, etc. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• It is used for lighting railway cars, buoys, and lightships. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• These were the prototypes of the lighted buoys which have since become familiar, as in the channel off Sandy Hook. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• He loved his own vigorous, thrusting motion, and the violent impulse of the very cold water against his limbs, buoying him up. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.

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