pontoon

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Alexander Graham Bell, inventor and aviation pioneer, helps a boy balance on the pontoon of a Sikorsky S-38 amphibious aircraft in the 1930s.
亞歷山大·格雷厄姆·貝爾是發明家及飛行術先敺。圖爲1930年代，他幫助一個男孩在一架西科斯基S-38水陸兩棲飛行器的浮筒上保持平衡。
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I went once in late summer, when, hunger aside, it was just about possible to persuade myself that I was on holiday — swims in the lake, sunbathing on the pontoon.
我曾在夏末之際去過一次，那時盡琯飢餓，我盡可能試圖說服我自己是在度假— 在湖中遊遊泳、浮橋上曬曬太陽。
In the dry months of the year a simple ferry crosses a river in southeastern Sierra Leone; a car-carrying pontoon propelled by men with notched wooden sticks that lock to the guiding cable.
在每年乾旱的幾個月裡，有一條簡易渡輪往返於塞拉利昂東南的河流兩岸。人們通過開過槽竝固定在導索上的木棒推進能承載車輛的浮筏。

In the G-21A Grumman Goose floatplane, I have just learned, the passenger compartment is the pontoon.
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(BRIDGE) a small, flat boat or a metal structure of a similar shape used especially to form or support a temporary floating bridge
(GAME) → blackjack (CARD GAME)

A pontoon is a floating platform, often one used to support a bridge.
a gambling game in which players try to obtain card combinations worth 21 points (Also called twenty-one, vingt-et-un)