🇬🇧🇨🇳 stowaway - 偷渡者 : English Lesson

Meaning of "stowaway" ("偷渡者"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

A stowaway is a person or animal who secretly hides on a ship, plane, train, or other vehicle without a ticket or permission, hoping to travel for free and not be noticed.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

I tried to be a stowaway in the moving truck, but they heard me yelling, “Are we there yet?”

The astronaut opened a cabinet on the spaceship and discovered a stowaway: his cat, floating in zero gravity.

Dad knew there was a stowaway in the car when his emergency candy stash started disappearing from the glove compartment.

Our class pet turtle was a stowaway in the janitor’s cart, slowly attempting the world’s quietest escape.

The cat became a stowaway when it curled up inside Dad’s suitcase and woke up in another country.

The stowaway curled behind stacked crates, heart pounding as the ferry lights slid by. A creak gave him away; the captain found the stowaway with a gentle laugh and a sandwich. The stowaway blinked, ashamed. The stowaway rode on deck, warm and quiet, while the captain wrote a note. The stowaway sighed with relief.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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