| 单词 | hoist |
| 释义 | hoist (hɔɪst ) Word forms: hoists , hoisting , hoisted 1. verb If you hoist something heavy somewhere, you lift it or pull it up there. Hoisting my suitcase on to my shoulder, I turned and headed toward my hotel. [VERB noun preposition/adverb] Grabbing the side of the bunk, he hoisted himself to a sitting position. [VERB pronoun-reflexive preposition/adverb] Synonyms: raise, lift, erect, elevate 2. verb If something heavy is hoisted somewhere, it is lifted there using a machine such as a crane. A twenty-foot steel pyramid is to be hoisted into position on top of the tower. [be VERB-ed preposition/adverb] Then a crane hoisted him on to the platform. [VERB noun preposition/adverb] 3. countable noun A hoist is a machine for lifting heavy things. Synonyms: lift, crane, elevator, winch 4. verb If you hoist a flag or a sail, you pull it up to its correct position by using ropes. A group of youths hoisted their flag on top of the disputed monument. [VERB noun] 5. hoist with your own petard phrase If someone who has planned to harm someone else is hoist with their own petard or hoist by their own petard, their plan in fact results in harm to themselves. The students were hoist by their own petards, however, as Granada decided to transmit the programme anyway. Idioms: hoist by your own petard [formal] if someone is hoist by their own petard, their plan to benefit themselves or to harm someone else results instead in benefit to the other person or harm to themselves His plans backfired terribly and in the end he was hoist by his own petard. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: hoist a sail She has 36,000 square feet of canvas and a team of svelte young men to hoist the sails. The Sun Young people, you are hoisting the sails of your life at a time that you are living in an academic atmosphere. Christianity Today Ropes - or sheets and halyards to give them their technical names - used to trim and hoist the sails, pour into the enormous cockpit from every angle. Times, Sunday Times The lifeboat raced after the yacht and to boost her speed hoisted her sail to help her engines. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 By hoisting the trophy, hoisting himself and hoisting us, he has achieved a stupendous victory. Times, Sunday Times Due to the increased weight and size of the trophy, it was no longer possible to hoist the trophy atop the winning car in victory lane. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But that still didn't stop him, in full kit, from being at the centre of the photos, hoisting the trophy aloft. The Sun Will we see him hoisting the trophy again in a week's time? Times, Sunday Times From early in the second set there was little doubt which team would soon be hoisting the trophy in an increasingly one-sided contest. Times, Sunday Times He has been hoisted high by the wisdom of the viewing crowds who ran up their phone bills to champion him. Times, Sunday Times Dressed to the nines, he was hoisted high by the station porters and regarded by all in awe. Times, Sunday Times The crowd surges forward, banners and party flags hoisted high for the cameras. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 提起, 提起 Japanese: 持ち上げる, 起重機 |
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