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anchorage

/ang-ker-ij/US // ˈæŋ kər ɪdʒ //UK // (ˈæŋkərɪdʒ) //

锚地,锚具,碇泊处,锚定

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : that portion of a harbor or area outside a harbor suitable for anchoring or in which ships are permitted to anchor.
    • : a charge for occupying such an area.
    • : the act of anchoring or the state of being anchored.
    • : that to which anything is fastened.
    • : a means of anchoring or making fast.
    • : something that can be relied on: The Bible is her anchorage.
    • : a massive masonry or concrete construction securing a cable at each end.
    • : Dentistry. an abutment.the locking in of a tooth filling by means of an undercut.

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Examples

  • You reach it via a 30-minute water-taxi ride from the town of Homer, four hours south of Anchorage.

  • Mouser continued living and working openly in Anchorage during that time.

  • Beginning in 1988, he worked at a Wash-and-Lube car wash in midtown Anchorage.

  • In fact, she was in Fairbanks, hundreds of miles from the hotel in Anchorage, on the night of her mother’s hotel room encounter.

  • That week, the Alaska Federation of Natives convention began in Anchorage.

  • Those were the last words Charlo Greene said as a reporter for KTVA TV in Anchorage, Alaska.

  • When: July 18-19 Getting there: There are daily flights to Cordova from both Anchorage and Seattle (via Juneau).

  • But in many ways, the route from Anchorage to Nome was almost the easy part.

  • You see that play out in places like Anchorage, the rape capital of the United States, where Native women are targeted in bars.

  • Soon Shawn will make another trip to Anchorage, a place he described to Karen as "overrated," she says.

  • Most of the troop transports have left their anchorage and gone back to Mudros for fear of submarines.

  • So that we were compelled to remain all the next day at the anchorage to shift them.

  • The boats were therefore hoisted in, and preparations made to leave the anchorage.

  • This bay very probably affords good anchorage out of the strength of the tides.

  • The harbor is one of the best and affords safe anchorage for the largest ocean-going vessels.