dock是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 an area of water in a port that can be closed off and that is used for putting goods onto and taking them off ships or repairing ships -- 泊位；船塢

  • The strike has led to the cancellation of some ferry services and left hundreds of passengers stranded at the docks. 罷工導致部分輪度停運，數百名旅客滯留碼頭。

• 1 the place in a criminal law court where the accused person sits or stands during the trial -- 被告席

  • The defendant seemed nervous as he left the dock and stepped up to the witness box. 被告人在離開被告席走向證人席時似乎有些緊張。

  • The company will find itself in the dock (= in court) if it continues to ignore the pollution regulations. 如果該公司繼續無視控制污染的規定，它就會被告上法庭。

• 2 a common wild plant with large wide leaves that grows in some northern countries such as Britain -- 酸模（一種生長在如英國等北方國家的寬葉野生植物）

  • Rubbing dock leaves on nettle stings helps to relieve the pain. 將酸模葉子揉碎抹在蕁麻刺傷處有助於止痛。

• 3 a docking station -- （同docking station）

• 4 to remove part of something -- 克扣，扣發（尤指金錢）

  • As a punishment, the Army docked the soldiers' pay/wages by 20% and took away their leave. 作為懲罰，陸軍方面扣發了士兵們20%的工資並取消了他們的休假。

  • The lambs' tails are docked (= cut short) for hygiene reasons. 出於衛生方面的考慮，羊的尾巴都被剪短了。

• 5 If a ship docks, it arrives at a dock and if someone docks a ship, they bring it into a dock. -- （使）靠岸，（使）停泊，（使）進港

  • Hundreds of people turned up to see the ship dock at the pier. 數百人前來觀看該船入港。

  • The Russians and Americans docked (= joined together in space) (their spacecraft) just after one o'clock this morning. 俄國人和美國人（的太空船）今天淩晨一點剛過時實現了太空對接。