mast
mast 英 [mɑ:st] 美 [mæst]
n. 桅杆；柱；橡树果实 vt. 在…上装桅杆
名词复数:masts
- A mast is a pole that rises vertically from a ship and supports the sails. Really big sailboats have more than one mast. A mast is also another name for flagpole.
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- n. 桅杆；柱；橡树果实
- vt. 在…上装桅杆
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1. He climbs the mast... Then he falls down!
它爬上桅杆…然后它掉下来了！
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2. While a ketch offers these advantages to cruisers, they may also be more expensive because of the added mast and sail.
尽管双桅帆给水手们提供了这些优势，它们也因为这额外的桅杆和船帆而造价更加昂贵。
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3. She says the boat would be shaped like a capsule, powered by a small nuclear engine, and though there would be no sail, it would have a mast to hold a camera.
斯托芬表示，探测船将被制成胶囊状，并由一个小型核动力引擎驱动，尽管不会有帆，但船上会有一个固定照相机的桅杆。
- mast (n.1) "long pole on a ship to support the sail," Old English mæst, from Proto-Germanic *mastaz (source also of Old Norse mastr, Middle Dutch maste, Dutch, Danish mast, German Mast), from PIE *mazdo- "a pole, rod" (source also of Latin malus "mast," Old Irish matan "club," Irish maide "a stick," Old Church Slavonic mostu "bridge"). The single mast of an old ship was the boundary between quarters of officers and crew, hence before the mast in the title of Dana's book, etc.
- mast (n.2) "fallen nuts; food for swine," Old English mæst, from Proto-Germanic *masto (source also of Dutch, Old High German, German mast "mast;" Old English verb mæsten "to fatten, feed"), perhaps from PIE *mad-sta-, from root *mad- "moist, wet," also used of various qualities of food (source also of Sanskrit madati "it bubbles, gladdens," medah "fat, marrow;" Latin madere "be sodden, be drunk;" Middle Persian mast "drunk;" Old English mete "food," Old High German muos "meal, mushlike food," Gothic mats "food").
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