coxswain
coxswain 英 [ˈkɒksn] 美 [ˈkɑksn]
n. 舵手；艇长
名词复数:coxswains
- The coxswain is the person who steers a boat: the helmsman. If you’re going the wrong way on the sea, blame the coxswain.
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- n. 舵手；艇长
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1. Oh, I know'd Dick was square, ' returned the voice of the coxswain, Israel Hands. 'He's no fool, is Dick.
“哦，我晓得狄克是我们这边的，”舵手伊斯莱尔·汉兹的声音回答说。
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2. A few minutes pass, then ecologist Xie Songguang, perched like a coxswain, points off starboard and cries: "Over there!"
过了几分钟之后，生态学家谢松光像艇长一样坐在船的边沿，他突然指向右舷外的水面，同时大喊：“在那儿！”
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3. "He's no common man, Barbecue, " said the coxswain to me.
‘大叉烧’，他是个不同寻常的人，”舵手对我说。
- coxswain (n.) early 14c., "officer in charge of a ship's boat and its crew," from cock "ship's boat" (from Old French coque "canoe") + swain "boy," from Old Norse sveinn "boy, servant" (see swain). Short form cox is attested from 1869.
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