astern

英 [ə'stɜːn] 美 [ə'stɜːrn]

• adv. 在船尾；向船尾；向后地
• adj. 在船尾的；向船尾的；向后的

英英释义

Adverb:

1. stern foremost or backward;

   "the steamer went astern at half speed"
   

2. at or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane;

   "stow the luggage aft"
   "ships with square sails sail fairly efficiently with the wind abaft"
   "the captain looked astern to see what the fuss was about"
   

3. (of a ship or an airplane) behind;

   "we dropped her astern on the end of a seven-inch manilla, and she laid comfortably on the ebb tide"
   

例句

用作副词 (adv.)

1. One of the fishing boats sank down astern of us.
   有一艘渔船在我们后面沉没了。
2. A great battleship, forging silent and unlighted through the dark night, loom close astern.
   在漆黑的夜中一轮巨大战舰一声不响地熄灯前进，逼近船尾。

经典引文

• Keeping half his boat's length astern of the other boat.

  出自： Dickens

• Free as the petrels hovering astern.

  出自： N. Hampson

• If he had expected to leave British snobbery astern with his public school he was sadly mistaken.

  出自： M. Lowry

词汇搭配

• fall astern 落在后面
• astern cam 倒车凸轮
• astern running 倒车
• astern trial 倒车试验
• astern wheel 倒车轮
• astern power 倒车功率
• full astern 全速后退
• go astern 反向移动,反方向移动...
• astern stage 倒车级
• dead astern 正后方,后退...
• astern turbine 倒车轮机,倒车汽轮机...
• drop astern 落后
• line astern 舰队纵列前进...
• astern of 在 ... 的后面...

近反义词

【近义词】

• aft 向船尾
• abaft 在……之后
• behind 在...之后
• in back of 在 ... 的后面...
• back of 在 ... 后部
• forward 向前的
• backward 向后的
• backwards 向后
• in reverse 相反

【反义词】

• ahead 领先