资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Transport \Trans"port\, n. [F. See {Transport}, v.]
1. Transportation; carriage; conveyance.
The Romans . . . stipulated with the Carthaginians
to furnish them with ships for transport and war.
--Arbuthnot.
2. A vessel employed for transporting, especially for
carrying soldiers, warlike stores, or provisions, from one
place to another, or to convey convicts to their
destination; -- called also {transport ship}, {transport
vessel}.
3. Vehement emotion; passion; ecstasy; rapture.
With transport views the airy rule his own, And
swells on an imaginary throne. --Pope.
Say not, in transports of despair, That all your
hopes are fled. --Doddridge.
4. A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.