A houseboat having sails and sometimes an engine,used on the Nile.

大客船一种有帆和有时有发动机的居住船，用在尼罗河上

The word houseboat is a compound.

单词houseboat是一个合成词。

I’ve always lived in a houseboat

我一直住在船屋里。

||1:Makana is a poverty-stricken Sudanese political exile living alone on a rickety houseboat on the Nile.||2:He is commissioned by Hanafi, a violent and corrupt Cairene oligarch, with finding Adil Romario, a star football player.||3:Meanwhile, Liz Markham, the daughter of a British aristocrat, has been tortured and murdered while searching for her daughter, who went missing in Cairo more than 20 years earlier.||4:A former policeman himself, Makana is no naif, but he rapidly finds himself in a perilous world peopled with Egypt’s ultra-rich, Islamic militants and Russian organised crime.||5:It’s a heady mix, but one that Mr Bilal pulls off with verve.

||1:Makana，苏丹人士，穷困潦倒，因政治问题被流放他乡，独居于尼罗河上一艘破败不堪的船屋里。||2:他肩负开罗残暴腐朽的独裁者Hanafi的使命，寻找足球明星Adil Romario。||3:同时，英国贵族之女Liz Markham在寻找20余年前在开罗丢失的女儿时被折磨并被杀害了。||4:Makana曾为警察，自然绝不天真，但很快却发现自己身陷人间地狱，周围尽是埃及巨富、伊斯兰好战分子，还有俄罗斯人组织的犯罪。||5:这是个让人眼花缭乱的局面，Bilal先生却用高超的技艺成功驾驭了它。

you’re just puttering along, then unexpectedly find yourself studying Turkish or buying jodhpurs or moving onto a houseboat .

当你正在无精打采，突然出乎意料地发现自己在学土耳其语、或者是买长筒靴或把家到船房上。

Many of Ann’s clients had lost jobs when the houseboat industry in nearby Monticello collapsed.

附近蒙蒂塞洛市的游艇业崩溃，令安的很多客户失业。

Another time I had accompanied my father on a trip on the Ganges in his houseboat .

还有一次，我坐父亲的住船陪他到恒河上旅行。

The result is this stunning houseboat located in Hamburg, Germany.

结果他却建造出了坐落于德国汉堡的“船屋”。

He expects to live just as well, on the water and away from the churn of London’s streets, in his new houseboat .

他希望，在他的新房艇里，也能过得这么舒适惬意，置身水上，远离伦敦大街的喧嚣。

I sold my houseboat in Bristol and gave up my job at an organic food company.

我卖掉了布里斯托尔的船屋，并放弃了有机食品公司的工作。

When my eldest son was eight, the extended family booked a houseboat and spent the days leading up to Mother’s Day cruising on the river.

在我大儿子8岁的时候，我们大家庭订了艘游艇，预备母亲节在河上巡游。

Made of mainly wood and steel, the houseboat contains a single wall that wraps like a spiral from the outside to the inside.

这个“船屋”主要由木材和钢制成。这个“船屋”只有一面由外向内回旋的墙。

The houseboat is connected to the public infrastructure for water, waste water, electricity, telephone, community antenna and internet.

这种游艇式的房子可以通过公共设施来获取水源，排除废水，接通电力，通讯，交流天线和英特网。