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The mainmast is the chief mast on a ship — the tall pole that holds the biggest sails. On a ship with more than one mast, it is the largest or most important one. On many old sailing ships with three masts, it stands in the middle, with a smaller mast in front and one behind; the sure thing is the size, not a single fixed place on every ship. You mainly meet the word in writing about sailing ships. Modern engine ships may still have a mast for flags and radio, but people rarely bother with this old name. It is specialist, slightly old-fashioned English.
主桅；主桅杆。
組成From main + mast. Main is the chief or largest one; mast is the tall pole that holds the sails.
同家族的字
- mainthe chief or largest one
- mastthe tall pole that holds the sails
- foremastsame mast; the one nearer the front of the ship
- mizzenmastsame mast; the one nearer the back on many sailing ships
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以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
mainmastnoun/ˈmeɪn.mɑːst/
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nauticaltransportThe tallest mast of a sailing ship that has more than one mast; particularly a full-rigged ship.
- O, the most piteous cry of the poor souls! sometimes to see ’em, and not to see ’em; now the ship boring the moon with her main-mast, and anon swallowed with yest and froth, as you’ld thrust a cork into a hogshead.
- Then turning to his first Minister, who waited behind him with a white Staff near as tall as the Main-mast of the Royal Soveraign, he observed how contemptible a thing was human Grandeur, which could be mimicked by such diminutive Insects as I […]
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nauticaltransportThe second-foremost mast of a non-sailing ship with more than one mast.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。