• n. 水手長

boat, 船。swain, 少年。見coxswain, 舵手。

boatswain (n.)

mid-15c., from late Old English batswegen, from bat "boat" (see boat (n.)) + Old Norse sveinn "boy" (see swain). Phonetic spelling bo'sun/bosun is attested from 1840.

BOATSWAIN. The warrant officer who in the old Navy was responsible for all the gear that set the ship in motion and all the tackle that kept her at rest. [Sir Geoffrey Callender, "Sea Passages," 1943]

1. The head of Job Anderson , the boatswain, appeared at the middle loophole.

水手長 喬伯 -安德森的腦袋出現(xiàn)在了中間那個槍眼里.

來自英漢文學(xué) - 金銀島

2. Boatswain's and carpenter's tools over and above the Builder's standard.

超出建造方標準的額外的水手長和木工工具.

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3. We thought the boatswain a brute, and, practically, told him so.

我們認為這個水手長是個殘忍的家伙, 并幾乎對他直言相告了.

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