Anchor

(noun.) a mechanical device that prevents a vessel from moving.

(noun.) a central cohesive source of support and stability; 'faith is his anchor'; 'the keystone of campaign reform was the ban on soft money'; 'he is the linchpin of this firm'.

(noun.) a television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which several correspondents contribute.

(verb.) secure a vessel with an anchor; 'We anchored at Baltimore'.

(verb.) fix firmly and stably; 'anchor the lamppost in concrete'.

艾伯特整理

• Consols; for so it was that Becky felt the Vanity of human affairs, and it was in those securities that she would have liked to cast anchor. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• A great stone that I happened to find, after a long search, by the sea-shore, served me for an anchor. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Such an arrangement is equivalent to wheel and axle (Fig. 112); the capstan used on shipboard for raising the anchor has the same principle. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• There was some delay in getting supplies ashore from vessels at anchor in the open roadstead. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• All day Sunday at anchor. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The next morning we weighed anchor and went to sea. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• But this last new horse I have got is trying to break his neck over the tent-ropes, and I shall have to go out and anchor him. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• So we are getting up the anchors and preparing to sail to his watering-place. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Its strength has often been severely tested, as it has been sometime drawn up by ships' anchors, and considerably strained; but it has not been broken, and the insulation is almost perfect. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• The next comer was a gentleman in a shirt emblazoned with pink anchors, who was closely followed by a pale youth with a plated watchguard. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The Thark's great weight was anchoring us to our doom. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• We anchored here at Yalta, Russia, two or three days ago. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• We anchored in the open roadstead of Horta, half a mile from the shore. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• No date--Anchored off the picturesque city of Cagliari, Sardinia. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Thursday--Anchored off Algiers, Africa. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• They appear as anchored in the new concrete docks at Colon, preparatory to their passage through the canal, after having made the longest sea voyage then on record for submarines. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• We anchored, and I started in to fish. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.

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