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float，showy，superficial，[涂] leafing，floatage；

[例句] 他们在小舢板上漂浮了3个小时后才被发现。 They were spotted after three hours adrift in a dinghy.

[例句] 他们说起自己设法使油轮漂浮的英勇之举时非常谦虚。 They talked modestly of their valiant efforts to keep the tanker afloat.

[流] buoyancy，buoyant force，buoyance，floatage，flotage ；

[例句] 可以给潜水衣充气以增大浮力。 Air can be pumped into the diving suit to increase buoyancy.

[例句] 船一定要用有浮力的材料来做. A boat must be made of buoyant material.

buoy，staff float，drogue，dobber，buoyage ；

[例句] 航道有浮标表示. The channel is marked by buoys.

[例句] 声纳浮标允许只以一艘船来记录折射剖面. The sonobuoy permits recording a refraction profile with only one ship.

floater，buoy，float，quill，bobber ；

[例句] 所有的化油器都具有某种型式的贮油箱或浮子系统. All carburetors have some type of fuel reservoir or float system.

[例句] 鱼咬钩时,钩线上的浮子上下跳动. The float on a fishline bobs up and down when a fish grabs the hook.

float，drift，be unsteady，be unstable，fluctuate ；

[例句] 亚历山大的工兵修建了浮动的筏子来运载沉重的弩炮. Alexander's engineers built floating rafts for the heavy catapults.

[例句] 英镑 ( 向上/向下 ) 自由浮动. The pound floated ( up / down ).

relief (sculpture)，rilievo，cameo，enchase，basso-relievo ；

[例句] 这银花瓶上刻有花卉浮雕图案. The silver vase is embossed with a design of flowers.

[例句] 那小女孩戴着一枚浮雕宝石胸针. That little girl is wearing a cameo brooch.

[化] suspension，suspend ；

[例句] 他的哈气悬浮在自己面前。 His breath was hanging in the air before him.

[例句] 他声称自己可以悬浮在空中。 He has claimed he can levitate.

[矿] flotation，select flotation，floatation ；

[例句] 浮选操作法用于佛罗里达磷矿和科拉磷矿. Flotation is used for Florida and Kola rock.

[例句] 浮选是从液体中分离出低密度固体物或液态颗粒. Flotation is a process for separating low density solids or liquid particles from a liquid phase.

bowl，float bowl，buoy，float，camel ；

[例句] 船里的男孩买了护城河里的浮筒. Boys in the boat bought buoys in the moat.

[例句] 我们把船系在那个红色的大浮筒上. We tie up at that large red buoy.

frivolous，flippant，flighty，light，flibbertigibbet ；

[例句] 他说我太轻浮不能成为一名好的管理员. He said I was too flighty to be a good supervisor.

[例句] 他因言行轻浮而失去朋友的尊重. He was disconsidered with his friends for his flippancy.

appear before one's eyes，emerge，raise，drift，ray ；

[例句] 一丝怀旧的微笑浮现在她的脸上。 A faint smile of reminiscence appeared on her face..

[例句] 这使得更广泛的争论浮现了出来。 It's brought to the surface a much wider controversy.

be boastful，exaggerate，fuddy-duddy，dog，coxcombry ；

[例句] 我们喜欢他的诚实、不浮夸。 We like him for his honesty, his lack of pretension.

[例句] 她抨击同事“言辞浮夸做作”。 She attacked her colleagues for indulging in "grandiose and grandiloquent language".

（浮岩） pumice，pumice stone，float stone，[中医] Pumex -- a light porous stone of lava （酸性喷出岩之一），floatstone ；

[例句] 玛丽莲凹凸不平的皮肤, 浮石雕刻般的双乳, 火山似的大腿, 死一样苍白的脸. Marilyn's pitted skin, breasts of carved pumice, volcanic thighs, a face of ash.

[例句] 我们公司供应各类刷子, 足档案, 浮石. Our company supplies various types of brush, foot file, pumice.

float，superficial，showy ；

[例句] 树林上空飘浮着一股烟。 There was a drift of smoke above the trees.

[例句] 白云在蓝天上飘浮. White clouds swam in the blue sky.

flippancy，fickleness ；

[例句] 在国内,广大的选民浮躁不安,旁徨而无所适从. In the country the vast electorate was restless and adrift.

[例句] 就在这一时刻, 我看到了自己曾经的浮躁,这让我无地自容. Gradually, I find my flippancy and it made me ashamed.

showy，ostentatious，flashy，foppish rococo ；

[例句] 他笔下的公文矫揉浮华，长篇大论。 The prose of his official communications was so laboured, pompous and verbose.

[例句] 仪式场面宏大，却不浮华。 The service was grand without being pompous.

[植] （青萍） duckweed，Lemna minor，lesser duckweed，float ；

[例句] 翠鸟象箭似的由水面上擦过去, 小鱼大鱼都不见了, 水上只剩下浮萍. A kingfisher flashed across the water, the fish vanished, leaving the duckweed.

[例句] 我是垂钓者的浮萍. I was a fisherman's float.

edema，oedema，dropsy，[中医] general edema ；

[例句] 他脸部浮肿。 His face was bloated.

[例句] 他注意到她的眼袋略有浮肿。 He noticed some slight puffiness beneath her eyes.

buoyancy ；

[例句] 鳞片石墨矿是自然界可浮性最好的矿物之一. Flaky graphite is one of the best mineral in the nature.

[例句] 一般的岩石是不具有浮性的. Ordinary rocks don't have buoyancy.

assurgent，levitation，float，mount ；

[例句] 空的物体会在水中浮起。 Empty things float.

[例句] 软木是极易浮起的材料. Cork is a very buoyant material.