Ballast
['bæləst]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) any heavy material used to stabilize a ship or airship.
(noun.) an electrical device for starting and regulating fluorescent and discharge lamps.
(noun.) an attribute that tends to give stability in character and morals; something that steadies the mind or feelings.
(noun.) coarse gravel laid to form a bed for streets and railroads.
(verb.) make steady with a ballast.
吉米編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Any heavy substance, as stone, iron, etc., put into the hold to sink a vessel in the water to such a depth as to prevent capsizing.
(a.) Any heavy matter put into the car of a balloon to give it steadiness.
(a.) Gravel, broken stone, etc., laid in the bed of a railroad to make it firm and solid.
(a.) The larger solids, as broken stone or gravel, used in making concrete.
(a.) Fig.: That which gives, or helps to maintain, uprightness, steadiness, and security.
(v. t.) To steady, as a vessel, by putting heavy substances in the hold.
(v. t.) To fill in, as the bed of a railroad, with gravel, stone, etc., in order to make it firm and solid.
(v. t.) To keep steady; to steady, morally.
編輯:迈尔斯
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Weight (for steadiness), ballasting.[2]. Prudence, discretion, judgment, sense, wisdom, TACT, GUMPTION, common sense.
v. a. Put ballast into.
整理:莱斯利
解釋/意思:
n. heavy matter employed to give a ship sufficient immersion in the water to insure her safe sailing with spread canvas when her cargo and equipment are too light: that which renders anything steady.—v.t. to load with ballast: to make or keep steady: (Shak.) load.—n. Bal′last-heav′er.
編輯:沃尔夫冈
例句/造句/用法:
- These are feather-weights; they want ballast. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- It meant the apprehension of material which should ballast and check the exercise of reasoning. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- A ballast of water was carried in a compartment under each car. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The sleepers were laid upon the natural grade, and there was comparatively no effort made to ballast the road. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- He says he feels as if he 'could make a prosperous voyage now with me aboard as mate, and lots of love for ballast'. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- He was in charge of a fixed engine on Willington Ballast Hill that drew the trains of laden coal-cars up the incline. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
編輯:米兰达