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mariner

/mar-uh-ner/US // ˈmær ə nər //UK // (ˈmærɪnə) //

海员,水手长,水手,航海家

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who directs or assists in the navigation of a ship; sailor.
    • : Aerospace. one of a series of U.S. space probes that obtained scientific information while flying by or orbiting around the planets Mars, Mercury, and Venus.

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Examples

  • The National Hurricane Center in the United States also issued an ashfall advisory for mariners.

  • Unions and labor advocates say there have been numerous instances in the past year of mariners suffering medical emergencies aboard and not being able to go ashore for vital treatment.

  • The 66-year-old, who is a member of the International Organization of Masters, Mates & Pilots, became a merchant mariner because he wanted to see the world.

  • Mossman was forced to tell his mariners they had to keep working, a conversation that was replicated by captains and ship operators around the world.

  • The work is risky, demanding and essential — 90 percent of the world’s goods are transported by water — and merchant mariners typically work in months-on, months-off rotations to guard against burnout and the pervasive dangers of life at sea.

  • “The immediate effort to cover up what had been done suggested that they realized it was a crime,” said Mariner.

  • Happiness Like Water, by Chinelo Okparanta; 208 pp., Mariner Books, $15.

  • Two excellent sources of story material are Professional Mariner and Trains magazine.

  • The twin whirlpools threatened the affrightened mariner on either side.

  • The most furious winds the mariner knows are those which he encounters as he approaches the still centre.

  • There was then in the settlement a veteran mariner named William Kidd.

  • The mariner suffered himself to be persuaded, and within two days landed his passengers in safety at Nieuport.

  • Seeing how the master-mariner honours the magnetic needle, every thoughtful passenger will probably consult it in like manner.