【berth】 - A-level备考词汇

berth

UK:  [bɜː(r)θ]

US:  [bɜrθ]

复数：berths  过去分词：berthed  现在分词：berthing  

v.

1.使停泊,开到抛锚处

2.为…提供卧铺;(车库等)容纳

3.占铺位

4.呆在铺位上

5.使就职

6.登陆

n.

1.停泊处;泊位

2.码头

3.投锚处,停泊地;船台

4.安全距离;停泊

5.(车、船等的)卧铺

6.(船与沙滩等之间留出的)安全距离

7.(轮船上的)住舱;住处

8.〔英国〕职位,地位;〔美国〕队形,球员位置

9.床位

10.〔体〕进入下轮比赛的资格

1 . Now, just after sundown, when all my work was over, and I was on my way to my berth, it occurred to me that I should like an apple.
太阳刚落山，我干完了自己分内的活，正准备回自己的铺位上去，忽然想吃一个苹果。

2 . When a poor man saw her, he took his wife and children and gave her a wide berth.
当一个穷苦人见了她，他带着妻子和孩子，给她敬而远之。

3 . When two women war out a ham bowel each additional, the front door of this berth suddenly drive a hit to open.
就在两个女人互相争夺一根火腿肠的时候，这船舱的大门忽然被一脚踢开了。

4 . He made his breakthrough two years ago when he won the competition for a right-back berth with Hatem Trabelsi.
两年前，他和哈特姆·特拉贝尔西竞争右后卫胜出，成了一个转折。

5 . Meanwhile, investors who once made Thailand one of the world's fastest-growing economies are giving it a wide berth.
与此同时，曾对泰国成为世界发展最快的经济体之一有巨大贡献的投资者目前也与这个国家拉开了距离。