convoy

noun

1. （尤指有士兵护送的）车队，船队
   a group of vehicles or ships travelling together, especially when soldiers or other vehicles travel with them for protection
   1. a convoy of trucks/lorries/freighters
      被护送的卡车 / 货船队
   2. A United Nations aid convoy loaded with food and medicine finally got through to the besieged town.
      一支联合国援助车队载着食物和药物终于抵达了被围困的市镇。

1. N-COUNT 车队;舰队
   A convoy is a group of vehicles or ships travelling together.
   1. ...a U.N. convoy carrying food and medical supplies...
      运送食品和医疗用品的联合国车队
   2. ...humanitarian relief convoys...
      人道主义援助车队
   3. They travel in convoy with armed guards.
      他们的车队在武装警卫的护送下行进。
2. VERB 护送;护卫;为…护航
   To convoy goods or people somewhere means to move them there in a convoy.
   1. He ordered the combined fleet to convoy troops to Naples.
      他命令联合舰队将军队护送到那不勒斯。

1. The affair began when customs officials inspected a convoy of 60 tankers
   就在海关关员检查一个60艘油轮的船队时，事情发生了。
2. They drove in convoy round the city in commandeered cars.
   他们开着征用的小车，在城里结队而行。
3. They travel in convoy with armed guards.
   他们的车队在武装警卫的护送下行进。
4. He ordered the combined fleet to convoy troops to Naples.
   他命令联合舰队将军队护送到那不勒斯。
5. There's unlikely to be firm news about the convoy's progress for some time.
   一段时间内都不大可能会有关于车队行进情况的确切消息。
6. We took our place at the head of the convoy.
   我们排在护送队伍的最前面。
7. They were injured when a parked car exploded as their convoy passed by.
   他们的车队经过时，一辆停放着的汽车爆炸了，他们受了伤。
8. A convoy of United Nations trucks rolled into Sarajevo today
   今天一支联合国卡车车队开进了萨拉热窝。
9. The convoy wound its way through the West Bank.
   车队曲曲折折地穿过约旦河西岸。
10. The gold was reached the bank's vault under convoy of armed guards.
    这些黄金在武装警卫的护运下安全运达银行保险库。
11. We drove to the front in a convoy of jeeps.
    大家分乘几辆吉普车开往前线。
12. The marching men had to close up to let the oncoming convoy go past.
    前进的士兵不得不收缩队伍礼让迎面而来的车队驶过。
13. What should he find but a military convoy?
    除了一支军事护送队以外，他还会发现什么呢？
14. The bomb struck a security convoy, not far from the Afghan boarder.
    此次爆炸袭击了一个安全护航队，位置就在距阿富汗边界不远的地方。
15. Since the founding of our company, have their own independent customs broker, truck convoys and convoy.
    我们公司成立以来，拥有自己独立的报关行，车队和集卡车队。
16. The convoy of seven vehicles halted.
    由七辆车组成的车队停了下来。
17. I have no radio contact with the convoy.
    我和护送部队失去联络。
18. Once a snowstorm hit their motor convoy when they were crossing the Qilian Mountains.
    有一次当他们车队正在翻越祁连山时，碰到了大风雪。
19. Was he in the convoy or not?
    他在护送队中么？
20. And while he was doing that, your wolf pack blasted the convoy.
    在他做这些的时候，你们的狼群消灭了护航者。
21. Suspected insurgents ambushed a NATO convoy in southern Afghanistan overnight Monday.
    周日晚，疑似起义武装的部队埋伏在阿富汗南部袭击了一支北约护航车队。
22. There's a convoy missing.
    有一支护送小组不见了。
23. Earlier, suicide bombers in two explosives-packed cars hit a Pakistan army convoy.
    早些时候，自杀炸弹手开着两个炸药包装车撞倒一名巴基斯坦军队车队。
24. The convoy was attacked by submarines.
    被护送的船队受到了潜水艇的攻击。
25. The convoy had stopped at a small town.
    车队停在一个小镇。
26. He swung his car into line with the presidential convoy.
    他将车一转，使它和总统的车队成为一行。
27. A convoy of Qaddafi loyalists laden with arms and gold crossed the border into Niger.
    载满武器弹药和黄金的卡扎菲护卫军近期穿越边境线，进入了尼日尔。
28. A suicide bomber drove his car into an armored bus that was part of a convoy from NATO.
    一个自杀式袭击者把车撞向北约车队中一辆配备武装的护卫公交车。
29. Three of the other cars in the convoy reported brake problems and one car did a lot of back firing but they all made it.
    其他车车队中的三个报告和一个汽车刹车问题做了很多，但背部射击都做到了。

  accompany attend convoy escort【导航词义：伴随】

  accompany v. 陪伴；伴随

〔辨析〕普通用词，多强调陪伴者与被陪伴者之间关系密切，也指某事物与另一事物同时发生或存在。

  attend v. 〈正式〉陪同；伴随

〔辨析〕多指下级、仆人陪伴上级、主人，也可以表示某事伴随另一事而发生。

  convoy v. 护送

〔辨析〕指在保护下经由水路护送，其对象通常为物。

  escort v. 护送

〔辨析〕指在保护下经由陆路护送，其对象通常为人。

n.

in convoy

• 结队；组队
  as a group; together
  1. We drove in convoy because I didn't know the route.
     因为我不熟悉路线，所以我们结队行驶。

noun

1. the act of escorting while in transit

2. a collection of merchant ships with an escort of warships

3. a procession of land vehicles traveling together

verb

1. escort in transit
   1. the trucks convoyed the cars across the battle zone
   2. the warships convoyed the merchant ships across the Pacific