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单词 captain's table
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captain's table
captain's table n. (on a ship) the dining table presided over by the captain and used by high-ranking crew or invited guests.
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1589 R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 674 Iohn Drake dieted at the captains table.
1667 S. Pepys Diary 5 Mar. (1974) VIII. 97 How he doth keep his Captain's table, and by that means hath the command of his Captains.
1782 R. Bage Mt. Henneth I. 178 Officers, clerks, and passengers dined and supped, if they chose, at the captain's table.
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xxxiv. 166 In strange contrast to the..constraint and nameless invisible domineerings of the captain's table, was..the almost frantic democracy of..the harpooneers.
1986 A. Powell Fisher King i. 8 Gary Lament..would, as a Fleet Street notability, undoubtedly have taken up a place at the Captain's table.
2011 N.Y. Mag. 31 Oct. 78/2 Joining him at the Cat's Table—the least desirable table in a ship's dining room, at the furthest distance from the Captain's Table—are..a motley of single adults.
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