ballast

英['bæləst] 美['bæləst]

过去式: ballasted 过去分词: ballasted 现在分词: ballasting 第三人称单数: ballasts

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星级词汇:

n. (名词)

v. (动词)

Noun:

any heavy material used to stabilize a ship or airship
coarse gravel laid to form a bed for streets and railroads
an attribute that tends to give stability in character and morals; something that steadies the mind or feelings
a resistor inserted into a circuit to compensate for changes (as those arising from temperature fluctuations)
an electrical device for starting and regulating fluorescent and discharge lamps

Verb:

1. We can trust that company; the partners are in ballast all right.: 我们可以信任那家公司, 其合伙人都很可靠.

3. Then the sound of rumbling thunder reached the watchers on the shore, as cargo, ballast, ammunition and 400 people went sliding and crashing down to the port side of the steeply listing ship.: 后来当船上的货物、压舱物、弹药以及400个人轰的一声滑到急剧倾斜的船体左舷一侧的时候, 岸上观看的人们听到了雷鸣般的轰隆声.

4. The ballast may be thrown out to make the balloon go higher.: 沙袋可以抛掉以使气球飞得更高.

用作名词 (n.)

If not ventilated properly, their ballast circuitry can get fried enough to fail.
如果通风不畅，压载物的线路板会如同被煎过似的坏掉。
The ship was furnished with ballast.
船上装了压舱物。
So are the motions of a little vessel without ballast tossed about on a stormy sea.
在惊涛骇浪的大海上，一只没有压舱物的小船就是这样颠颠簸簸。
The starting time is the time the ballast needs to light and stabilise the lamp.
镇流器使灯启动并使其稳定工作所需的时间。

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