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The word 船员 is formed by combining two meaningful characters: 船 (chuán), which means "ship" or "boat", and 员 (yuán), which signifies a "person" or "member" engaged in an activity. Their direct semantic combination creates the transparent, compound meaning of "ship member", logically referring to a crewman or sailor. This is a standard method in Chinese for creating precise nouns by descriptively joining a thing or place with the role of a person associated with it.

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船员在船上工作。

Chuányuán zài chuánshàng gōngzuò.

Crew members work on the ship.

这些船员来自不同国家。

Zhèxiē chuányuán láizì bùtóng guójiā.

These crew members come from different countries.

船长和船员们一起应对风暴。

Chuánzhǎng hé chuányuánmen yīqǐ yìngduì fēngbào.

The captain and the crew members face the storm together.

由于船员们的努力,船只安全抵达港口。

Yóuyú chuányuánmen de nǔlì, chuánzhī ānquán dǐdá gǎngkǒu.

Due to the efforts of the crew members, the ship safely arrived at the port.

在远洋航行中,船员需要具备丰富的航海知识和应急处理能力。

Zài yuǎnyáng hángxíng zhōng, chuányuán xūyào jùbèi fēngfù de hánghǎi zhīshì hé yìngjí chǔlǐ nénglì.

In ocean voyages, crew members need to possess rich nautical knowledge and emergency handling abilities.

Word Definition - 船员

chuán yuán sailor; crew member

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