strike sail

短语

突然下帆

词形变化

strikes sail 三单 striking sail 现在分词 struck sail 过去式 struck sail 过去分词 stricken sail 过去式 stricken sail 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To lower the sails (in preparation for dropping anchor, to salute or signal submission, in sudden gusts of wind, etc.).

    古体 航海 交通

    1627, John Donne, Sermon 24 in Fifty Sermons, London: M.F. et al., Volume 2, 1649, p. 202, […] a ship which hath struck Sail, will yet goe on with the winde it had before, for a while,

  2. 2.

    To acknowledge one's inferiority (to another person); to abate pretension.

    比喻 废旧