half-mast / ˈhæfˈmæst, ˈhɑfˈmɑst /

💦中学词汇下半旗降半旗半旗下半旗子

half-mast2 个定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. a position approximately halfway between the top of a mast, staff, etc., and its base.
v. 有主动词 verb
  1. to place at half-mast, as a mark of respect for the dead or as a signal of distress.

更多half-mast例句

  1. Eric Garcetti succeeded Villaraigosa and has received high marks in his first year and a half on the job.
  2. My dad was a sailor, and all through my childhood he was away half of the time at sea, and to an extent I have a similar job.
  3. As a result, training squadrons—called Formal Training Units (FTU)—are being staffed with less than half the people they need.
  4. Travel Noire fellows earned about a half million travel miles in 2014.
  5. Murders in the City of Angels have fallen by about half in the last 10 years: no small feat for such a big city.
  6. It is the principal waste-product of metabolism, and constitutes about one-half of all the solids excreted—about 30 gm.
  7. A small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.
  8. Hilda, trembling at the door, more than half expected Mr. Orgreave to say: "You mean, she's invited herself."
  9. All changes are to be Rang either by walking them (as the term is) or else Whole-pulls, or Half-pulls.
  10. The Vine is a universal favorite, and rarely out of view; while it often seems to cover half the ground in sight.