for five of her sixteen watertight compartments had already been flooded!
16个密封舱已有5个进水。
新概念英语第三册 Lesson 10 The loss of the Titanic

📚 句中词汇解析

从本句中提取的重要词汇

watertight ['wɔtɚtaɪt]
adj. 不漏水的;水密的;防渗的;无懈可击的;
💡 water水+tight 紧的 → 防水的；无懈可击
"The case has to be made watertight."
案由必须做到无懈可击。
近义：hermetic, hermetical, impenetrable, leakproof, staunch, airproof 反义：leaky, pervious
sixteen [,sɪks'tin] 词频1
n. 十六，十六个;十六岁;十六点钟;十六的记号; num. 十六;第十六; adj. 十六的;十六个的;
"She is sixteen but has a mental age of five."
她十六岁，而智力年龄是五岁。
already [ɔl'rɛdi] 词频1 词根: al
adv. 早已，已经;先前;
💡 all(所有)+ready(准备):所有都准备好了- 已经
"He was already aboard the plane."
他已经登机了。
flooded
a. 洪水浸没的；浸没的, 淹没的；灌溉；充斥
近义：inundated, puddly, swamped, swampy, waterlogged 反义：arid, lean, moistureless, athirst, parched, barren
compartments
n. 隔间（ compartment的复数形式 ）

📚 更多「新概念英语第三册」例句

The body of one statue was found among remains dating from the fifteenth century B.C.
其中有一尊雕像，她的躯体是在公元前15世纪的历史文物中发现的，
Obtaining 'protection money' is not a modern crime.
榨取保护金"并不是一种现代的罪恶行径。
Finding that he could not remember a word of the letter either,
狱卒发现自己连一个字也记不住，
The sense of humour is mysteriously bound up with national characteristics.
幽默感与民族有着神秘莫测的联系。
Historians have long been puzzled by dots, lines and symbols which have been engraved on walls, bones, and the ivory tusks of mammoths.
长期以来，历史学家一直对雕刻在墙壁上、骨头上、古代长毛象的象牙上的点、线和形形色色的符号感到困惑不解。
Gifts poured in not only from unknown people, but room baby food and soap manufacturers who wished to advertise their products.
不但素昧平生的人寄来了大量的礼物，而且婴儿食品、婴儿肥皂制造厂商为了替自己产品做广告也寄来了大量的礼物。