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foredeck

/fawr-dek, fohr-/US // ˈfɔrˌdɛk, ˈfoʊr- //UK // (ˈfɔːˌdɛk) //

前甲板,前舱,前台,前厅

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Nautical.

    • : the fore part of a weather deck, especially between a bridge house or superstructure and a forecastle superstructure.

Examples

  • Day found them stumbling down the Jersey coast, the foredeck a mass of wreckage and the ship leaking badly.

  • In beating to windward these cut-waters were in position, but when running free they were unshipped and laid on the foredeck.

  • Jack and Joe sat on the foredeck in the dusk, listening to the soft lap of water alongside.

  • But the electric globes still cast their white gleams over the foredeck and revealed a dark object that was not there before.

  • The stern of the Ariadne was in flames, but the guns on her foredeck continued to be worked.