随船押运

English translation: escort them in transportation by boat

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Chinese term or phrase:随船押运
English translation:escort them in transportation by boat
Entered by: zsyfzsyf

13:21 Aug 5, 2005
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Chinese term or phrase: 随船押运
...当时李世民命司农少卿宋遵贵随船押运送至长安....

how do you translate “随船押运“ in this context?

then Li Shiming ordered his subordinate Song Zhungui to carry them in boats to Chang'an (Present Xi'an City in Shanxi Province)

"carry... in boats to..."????
zsyfzsyf
escort them in transportation by boat
Explanation:
escort them in transportation by boat

押运
=escort in transportation
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Chinoise
Local time: 10:18
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thanks, Chinoise
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3 +1escort them in transportation by boat
Chinoise
4send sb/sth himself by boat
Shang
3transported by boat under the personal supervision of (so and so)
wherestip


  

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escort them in transportation by boat


Explanation:
escort them in transportation by boat

押运
=escort in transportation

Chinoise
Local time: 10:18
Native speaker of: Native in ChineseChinese
PRO pts in category: 57
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thanks, Chinoise

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agree  wherestip: agree. or transported by boat under escort
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随船押运
send sb/sth himself by boat


Explanation:
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Shang
China
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随船押运
transported by boat under the personal supervision of (so and so)


Explanation:
another option

wherestip
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Local time: 08:18
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