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mother ship

母舰,母船,母港,母体船

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a vessel or craft that services others operating far from a home port or center.

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Examples

  • “Workcation suggests that you’re not working,” he said, “but you can be sitting in Bali and working harder” than you did on the mother ship.

  • Unlike traditional rockets that take off vertically from a launchpad, Virgin Galactic launches its spacecraft from a mother ship, which carries the spacecraft to an altitude of more than 40,000 feet.

  • Like Virgin Galactic’s spaceship, the rocket is tethered to a mother ship, in this case a 747, that takes it to an altitude of some 40,000 feet.

  • A star presenter at Fox News exits the mother ship amid controversy, lured away by a rival network.

  • The boats can spend years at sea, periodically off-loading their catch to refrigerated mother ships and taking on fresh supplies.

  • Taraji manages to bring an equal measure of truth to the mother in her character.

  • Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.

  • But my sources, my young women and their mother, heroically held firm.

  • I thought about the mother, her fear of the dark, of the harm she feared might come to her daughters.

  • Meanwhile two kids were taken from their mother when she flew back to the UK from Turkey.

  • A wise man hateth not the commandments and justices, and he shall not be dashed in pieces as a ship in a storm.

  • There was no doubt thought of his own loss in this question: yet there was, one may hope, a germ of solicitude for the mother too.

  • "The Smoker," and "Mother and Daughter," a triptych, are two of her principal pictures.

  • The president sat in a chair which came over with the pilgrims in their ship, the Mayflower.

  • Now first we shall want our pupil to understand, speak, read and write the mother tongue well.