hoist是什么意思

双语用例

• A chair, for example, affords for an adult the options of sitting on, standing on, or even hoisting as a defense against snarling dogs.

• Similarly, although albino rats press a bar to eliminate the distress of a hoisted animal, they do not press a bar to eliminate the distress of a conspecific being shocked.

• All three hoists were then idle for four hours.

• Every month sees the balance of insecurity hoisted a little higher.

• The cutter could neither be hoisted owing to the sea alongside, nor moored safely astern.

• In most sheds there are coal or ash hoists, inspection pits and workshops equipped with an extensive range of tools, many of them power operated.

• I do not find that any of them are hoisting flags of distress.

• One hoisted one flag and one showed another.