英语词源
- yard-arm (n.)
- also yardarm, 1550s, from yard (n.2) in the nautical sense (attested from Old English) + arm (n.1). In 19c. British naval custom, it was permissible to begin drinking when the sun was over the yard-arm.
权威例句
- 1. The train backed out of Adelaide Yard on to the Dublin-Belfast line.
- 火车倒出了阿德莱德调车场，开上了都柏林-贝尔法斯特线。
- 2. I stumbled through mud to a yard strewn with straw.
- 我跌跌撞撞地趟过泥地来到一个堆满麦秆的场院。
- 3. He was frog-marched through the kitchen and out into the yard.
- 他被扭住双臂强推着走过厨房，来到院子里。
- 4. She sat on a chair in the flagged yard.
- 她坐在铺着石板的庭院里的一把椅子上。
- 5. Scotland Yard had assured him he was not under suspicion.
- 伦敦警察厅已经向他保证，他没有被视为可疑分子。