- 1右舷（船、飛機面向前方時的右側）。相對的左側叫 port（左舷）。
Starboard is the right-hand side of a ship or aircraft when you are facing the front. The opposite side is port.
Why have special words at all? Because 'right' depends on which way the person talking happens to be facing. If a sailor shouts 'go right' and you are looking back at them, you turn the wrong way. Starboard never changes: it is fixed to the vessel, not to a body. That is why ships, planes, and navies keep the words even though they sound old-fashioned.
It works as a noun ('a light on the starboard'), and it sits in front of other nouns ('the starboard engine', 'the starboard side'). You also hear it in directions like 'hard to starboard', meaning turn sharply that way. At night, ships carry a green light on the starboard side and a red one on the port side, so another ship can tell which way you are heading in the dark.
On land it is only a joke, or sailing-club talk. Nobody asks you to pass the salt on their starboard side unless they are being funny.
From the word’s history
Old English stēorbord 'steering side': early Germanic ships had the steering oar on the right.
古英文 stēorbord：steer（掌舵）＋board（船側），舵在右邊。
組成steer + board. 'Board' here is an old word for the side of a ship. Long before the modern rudder, ships were steered with a big oar hung over one side, and because most people are right-handed, it was hung on the right — the steer-side, stēorbord in Old English. Since that oar stuck out on the right, the ship had to pull up to the dock on its left side instead, and that left side became the port side, the one facing the harbour.
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starboardnoun詞源 1/ˈstɑː.bəd/
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The righthand side of a ship, boat or aircraft when facing the front, or fore or bow. Used to unambiguously refer to directions according to the sides of the vessel, rather than those of a crew member or object.
- I see another vessel off the starboard side.
- We're on starboard tack, so the other boat has to give way.
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nauticaltransportOne of the two traditional watches aboard a ship standing a watch in two.
starboardverb詞源 1/ˈstɑː.bəd/
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nauticaltransportTo put to the right, or starboard, side of a vessel.
- to starboard the helm
starboardnoun詞源 2
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A list that shows messages starred in a community space.
- The unlimited starring power is an arguably useful feature because it enables management of the starboard with notifications and the like, but I see nothing in the informal job description of a room owner that says they have any more right to spam the room than I do.
- TFHRC#1 indicates a backquote in a chat message using fixed-width formatting, which is (correctly) output literally. FHRC#2 shows that the same backquote is misinterpreted by the sidebar starboard as a formatting character, wrecking the intended look and feel even more.
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A system that enables such a list.
- In case you don't know what a starboard is, it's basically a system used on Discord that whenever you react with a star emoji, the message is showcased inside of a #starboard channel.
- We used to do that until someone suggested adding a bot that had a starboard.
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