load line
load line — 名詞
1. a painted mark on the outside of a ship that shows how deep it may sit in the wa
載重線
船身上標示安全載貨深度的記號
a painted mark on the outside of a ship that shows how deep it may sit in the water once cargo has been added, so that it is not made too heavy to stay safe.
The harbour inspector checked that the load line on the cargo ship was still clearly painted.
港口檢查員確認貨船上的載重線仍然清楚地漆著。
subject = inspector; the mark is checked for visibility
Heavy crates pushed the boat so low that the water nearly covered its load line.
沉重的木箱把船壓得很低，海水幾乎蓋過了它的載重線。
shows the water rising toward the mark when overloaded
Captain Okafor refused to leave port until the cargo sat above the load line.
Okafor 船長堅持貨物高過載重線之後才肯離港。
load line as the safe-loading limit a captain checks
Every ship in the fleet had a load line painted near the middle of its hull.
船隊裡的每一艘船，船身中央附近都漆有一條載重線。
typical position of the mark on the hull
The dock workers stopped loading sacks of rice once the load line touched the sea.
載重線一碰到海面，碼頭工人就停止搬運整袋的米。
loading stops when the mark reaches the waterline
- paint a load line
- above the load line
- below the load line
- Plimsoll line
the everyday name for the same mark, after its inventor Samuel Plimsoll
- waterline
broader term for where the water meets the hull, not specifically the safety limit
用法筆記
Subject of attention is usually a ship's hull or its cargo; the mark sets the legal limit for how heavily a vessel may be loaded. Also called the Plimsoll line.