carrier

['kæriə]

n.航空母舰, 运输工具, 行李架, 带菌者, 运送者, 客运公司, 电信公司

n.[C]

1. 运送人; 搬运人; 送信人

I applied for the job as a mail carrier.

我申请邮差的工作。

2. 从事运输业的人(或公司)

The commercial carrier is doing a lively business.

那家商务运输公司业务繁忙。

3. 航空母舰

The missile was launched from the aircraft carrier.

导弹是从航空母舰上发射的。

4. (自行车等的)置物架; (车子的)货架

5. 【医】带菌者; 媒介物

Meat, improperly handled, is a lethal carrier of bacteria.

未经适当处理的肉是危险的带菌物。

词形变化

名词复数：carriers

词义辨析

同义:

n.运货人, 运货公司, 传信人

transporter  conveyor  bearer  bringer  messenger  runner  porter  mail carrier  postman

n.置物架, 行李架

rack  roof rack  luggage-carrier  

同义参见:

porter  warship  

英英释义

名词 carrier:

someone whose employment involves carrying something

同义词：bearer, toter

a self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something

a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings

同义词：aircraft carrier, flattop, attack aircraft carrier

an inactive substance that is a vehicle for a radioactive tracer of the same substance and that assists in its recovery after some chemical reaction

a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages

同义词：common carrier

a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal

同义词：carrier wave

a man who delivers the mail

同义词：mailman, postman, mail carrier, letter carrier

a boy who delivers newspapers

同义词：newsboy

(medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others

同义词：immune carrier

a rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like

(genetics) an organism that possesses a recessive gene whose effect is masked by a dominant allele; the associated trait is not apparent but can be passed on to offspring

补充

carriercarrier英:[ˈkæriə] 美:[ˈkæriɚ]n.1.搬运人; 送信人; 运输工具2.带菌者Mosquitoes are carriers of disease.蚊子是疾病的传播媒介。

例句

1. They are dispatched from our nursery by overnight carrier.它们由夜间运货车从我们的苗圃运走。 2. There were armoured personnel carriers and tanks on the streets.街道上有装甲运兵车和坦克。 3. Switzerland's national carrier, Swissair, has been having a hard time recently.瑞士国家航空公司“瑞士航空”近来一直在艰难运营。 4. an AIDS carrier艾滋病病毒携带者 5. Vaccination will not prevent an animal from becoming a carrier.疫苗接种并不能防止动物成为病原携带者。 6. water carriers.运水人。 7. a plastic carrier.一个塑料手提袋。 8. Pan Am was the third US carrier to cease operations in 1991.泛美航空公司是1991年第三家停业的美国航空公司。 9. the largest timber carrier ever to dock at Sharpness.曾在夏普尼斯港停靠的最大木材运输船。 10. the badger is a carrier of TB.獾是结核病菌携带者。 11. the Dutch carrier, KLM荷兰航空公司 KLM 12. an aircraft carrier航空母舰 13. Some insects are carriers of tropical diseases.某几类昆虫是热带疾病的媒介。 14. I put the pet carrier in the car.我把宠物箱放在了车里。 15. The equipment comes with its own carrier. [=carrying case]设备送来时装在自带包装箱里。 16. The airline is the nation's largest carrier.这家航空公司是全国最大的承运机构。 17. Mosquitoes can be carriers of malaria.蚊子有可能携带疟疾病毒。 18. We switched to a different long-distance carrier to save money on our phone bill.为了节省电话费，我们换了一家长途电话公司。