When a passing tanker rescued them five days later,
5天后，一条油轮从那儿路过，搭救了他们。
新概念英语第三册
Lesson 12 Life on a desert island
📚 句中词汇解析
从本句中提取的重要词汇
tanker
['tæŋkɚ]
n. 油罐车;油轮;一辆坦克乘员中的一名;
💡 tank油[水]箱+er名词后缀 → 油船,油轮
"The tanker began to spill its cargo of oil."
油轮已开始漏油。
近义：tankship
n. 通过, 逝去, 死, 流逝\\na. 经过的, 流逝的, 目前的, 短暂的, 及格的, 仓促的
近义：passage, transition, death, decease, demise, extinction
反义：lasting, lifelong, perdurable, permanent, perpetual, chronic
later
['letɚ]
adv. 较晚地;以后，过后;后来;随后;
adj. 后来的;以后的;接近末期的;晚年的;
"He was banished to Australia, where he died five years later."
他被流放到澳大利亚，五年后在那里去世。
近义：posterior, subsequent, succeeding, ulterior, farther, following
反义：precedent, prevenient, previous, prior, forefatherly, advance