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steerage

/steer-ij/US // ˈstɪər ɪdʒ //UK // (ˈstɪərɪdʒ) //

统舱,统治,统筹兼顾,统筹

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a part or division of a ship, formerly the part containing the steering apparatus.
    • : the part or accommodations allotted to the passengers who travel at the cheapest rate.

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Examples

  • The airlines have indoctrinated us to accept a “steerage complex.”

  • Two thousand and seventy-four immigrants arrived in the steerage at New York.

  • There were other mournful cases indeed to be studied on the steerage deck, but none in which misfortune was so attractive.

  • There were those who said that they consented to go steerage because they thought steerage was fixed up like first cabin.

  • On sailed the boat, left to the steerage of Providence; on slept Newton, as if putting firm reliance on the same.

  • I carry with me into the steerage just a bit of self-consciousness—there are so many trying to play upon me.