oar n. 1.槳;櫓。 2.槳手,劃手。 3.劃子,船。 4.槳狀物,槳狀器官〔翼、鰭、腕等〕。 This boat pulls [rows] six oars. 這只船用六把槳劃。 a pair- [an eight-] oar 雙槳[八槳]船。 a good [bad] oar 好[笨]槳手。 be chained to the oar 被強迫做苦工。 bend to the oars 用力劃槳。 boat the oars 停劃收槳。 have an oar in every man's boat 任何人的事情都要插手干涉,愛管閑事。 have the labouring oar 擔(dān)任苦活,負(fù)擔(dān)工作中最繁重或最艱苦的部分。 peak the oars 高舉槳尾(出水中)。 pull a good oar 劃得一手好槳。 pull a lone oar 獨自干。 put [thrust] one's oar in 干預(yù),多管閑事。 rest [lie] on one's oars 擱槳停劃;(暫時)歇一歇;吃老本。 ship [unship]an oar 上[下]槳。 take [pull] the labouring oar 擔(dān)任苦活。 toss the oars 舉槳(敬禮)。 trail the oars 任槳隨水漂流。 vi.,vt. 〔詩〕劃,蕩(槳);像槳一樣擺動(手等)。 oar one's way 劃槳前進(jìn)。
The mutineers were bolder than we fancied , or they put more trust in israel s gunnery . for four or five of the were busy carrying off our stores , and wading out with the to one of the gigs that lay close by , pulling an oar on so hold her steady against the current 因為他們中有四五個人正忙著拖走我們的物資,并且涉水把它們裝到其中的一個劃子上,這只劃子就停在近旁,里面的人不時劃兩下槳,以使它在湍流中保持穩(wěn)定。
One instant he was astride a broncho and flying through the fairy - colored painted desert country ; the next instant he was gazing down through shimmering heat into the whited sepulchre of death valley , or pulling an oar on a freezing ocean where great ice islands towered and glistened in the sun 他一時騎著野牛在色彩絢麗宛如仙境的彩繪沙漠上飛馳一時又穿過閃著微光的熱氣俯瞰著死亡谷的曬白了的墓窟。他在快要凍結(jié)的海洋上劃著槳,海面上巍然高聳的龐大冰山熠耀在陽光里。