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.
亚历山大·格雷厄姆·贝尔是发明家及飞行术先驱。图为1930年代，他帮助一个男孩在一架西科斯基S-38水陆两栖飞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.
我曾在夏末之际去过一次，那时尽管饥饿，我尽可能试图说服我自己是在度假— 在湖中游游泳、浮桥上晒晒太阳。
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.
在每年干旱的几个月里，有一条简易渡轮往返于塞拉利昂东南的河流两岸。人们通过开过槽并固定在导索上的木棒推进能承载车辆的浮筏。

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)