喜樂美語
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    The mainsail is the biggest sail on a sailing ship — the one that does most of the work of catching the wind. It hangs from the , the tallest mast, usually near the middle of the ship. Sailors treat it as one word. Which sail counts as the mainsail depends a little on the kind of boat: on a simple sailing boat it is obvious; on a tall ship with many sails, it is still the large one on that . People sometimes say it loosely for whatever sail they are using most, but in careful sea language it names that particular sail. You will meet it in ship stories and sailing talk, not in ordinary city English.

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    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現， 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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組成main (the chief or most important) + sail (the cloth that catches the wind).

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  • mainthe first part: the chief or most important one
  • sailthe second part: the cloth that catches the wind
  • mainmastthe tallest mast, the one this sail hangs from

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

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。

mainsailnoun/ˈmeɪnseɪl/

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    nauticaltransportThe largest (or only) sail on a sailing vessel.

    • The mainsail was "scandalised" - a nautical mode of describing a sail reefed at both ends[.]
    • Now stow the mainsail as follows, preferably with the sail still lying in the starboard cockpit: beginning at the head, fold the upper section so that the upper two battens are aligned together; then tightly roll the sail from the head down to the foot. Reinsert the sail into its bag.

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。