anchor是什么意思中文？ 每日单词：anchor

anchor /ˈæŋkər/

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基本释义

An anchor is a heavy hooked object that is dropped from a boat into the water at the end of a chain in order to make the boat stay in one place.

外刊例句

Captain Delano raised his spy glass and looked closely at the strange ship coming slowly in. He was surprised that there was no flag. A ship usually showed its flag when entering a harbor where another ship lay at anchor.

德拉诺船长举起望远镜，仔细地看着那艘缓缓驶来的怪异船只。他很惊讶这艘船没有国旗，船只通常在进入另一艘船停泊的港口时会展示其旗帜。

追根溯源

单词anchor与angle（角度）同源，都来源于拉丁语angulus（角度，弯曲），最常见的含义是“锚（máo）”。

锚是船停泊时所用的器具，用铁制成。一端有两个或两个以上带倒钩的爪儿，另一端用铁链连在船上，抛到水底或岸边，用来稳定船舶。

需要注意的是，单词anchor有物理和精神两层含义。

物理层面的含义就是停靠船舶时所用的“锚，支柱”，而精神层面的含义则表示“精神支柱，顶梁柱”。例如：

The anchor was attached to a length of rope.

锚系在一段缆绳上。

Letters from home were an anchor to him when he worked abroad.

他在国外工作时，家书是他的精神支柱。

类似的单词还有pillar，物理含义表示“柱子，桥墩”，而精神层面的含义则表示“精神支柱，顶梁柱”。例如：

John put on his harness and attached it to a pillar.

约翰戴上了安全带，并把它系在了一根柱子上。

The electronics industry is the newly-rising pillar industry.

电子工业是新崛起的支柱产业。

真题例句

Unlike the original form used in early pendulum clocks, the anchor escapement permitted the pendulum to travel in a very small arc. Moreover, this invention allowed the use of a long pendulum which could beat once a second and thus led to the development of a new floor-standing case design, which became known as the grandfather clock.

与早期钟摆钟使用的原始形式不同，锚擒纵机构允许钟摆在一个非常小的弧度内活动。此外，这一发明允许使用一种可以每秒摆动一次的长摆，从而导致了一种新的落地式表壳设计的发展，这就是后来被称为大摆钟的设计。