anchor
anchor 英 [ˈæŋkə(r)] 美 [ˈæŋkɚ]
n. 锚 v. 下锚；系牢；扎根
进行时:anchoring 过去式:anchored 过去分词:anchored 第三人称单数:anchors 名词复数:anchors
- On a boat, an anchor is a heavy object attached to a rope. You toss it overboard, it sinks to the bottom, and your vessel doesn't move. Anchor has the sense of what holds something in place.
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- n. 锚
- v. 下锚；系牢；扎根
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1. to drop anchor
抛锚
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2. The ship lay at anchor two miles off the rocky coast.
船在离岩岸两英里处抛锚停泊。
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3. We weighed anchor.
我们起锚。 (= pulled it out of the water)
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4. the anchor of the family
全家的顶梁柱
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5. We anchored off the coast of Spain.
我们在西班牙沿海抛锚停泊。
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6. Make sure the table is securely anchored.
务必要把桌子固定好。
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7. Her novels are anchored in everyday experience.
她的小说取材自日常生活经验。
- anchor (n.) "device for securing ships to the ground under the water by means of cables," Old English ancor, borrowed 9c. from Latin ancora "an anchor," from or cognate with Greek ankyra "an anchor, a hook," from PIE root *ang-/*ank- "to bend" (see angle (n.)).
- anchor (v.) "fix or secure in a particular place," c. 1200, perhaps in Old English, from anchor (n.) or from Medieval Latin ancorare. Figurative use from 1580s; in reference to television or radio programs, 1961. Related: Anchored; anchoring.
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