| 单词 | muster |
| 释义 | mus·ter I. transitive verb 1. a. < had been … mustered as surgeon's mate — Tobias Smollett > — used chiefly with in or into < the army musters in recruits > < a businessman recently mustered into government service — New Yorker > b. (1) < all hands were mustered aft for watches to be told off — H.A.Chippendale > < mustered the ladies together and urged them into another room — Maurice Cranston > < did not muster much of a crowd — Ben Riker > (2) Australia < went up into the reserve to muster our stock — F.S.Anthony > c. < fell out on deck and the mate mustered the ship's company > 2. a. < muster a few pounds to buy some seed corn — Adrian Bell > < mustered shirts and socks and neckties from his chest of drawers — Richard Blaker > < could only muster … two hundred votes — E.H.Collis > b. < couldn't muster courage to pop the question — Agnes S. Turnbull > < have to muster the right words as well as the midnight courage — E.B.White > < as soon as sufficient public support can be mustered — Chester Bowles > — often used with up < cannot muster up much sympathy for the … privations which he endured — W.E.Channing > 3. < the book-reading public musters 55 percent of the population — J.D.Adams > < the senior program … mustered 123,299 students — Americana Annual > intransitive verb 1. a. < thirty thousand men … were to muster in the disguise of pilgrims — T.B.Macaulay > b. obsolete < vapors … drawn from the sea to muster in the skies — Richard Blackmore > 2. Australia < mustered in March this year on account of the late season and drove the stock down … in April — Nevil Shute > II. 1. < musters of goods for sale, in reasonable quantities — Tariffs of Foreign Countries > 2. obsolete < begin to make some muster and show of their learning — Richard Mulcaster > 3. a. (1) < the boys in the squad room sat around between musters — Seymour Ettman > (2) < slipshod work that would never pass muster > specifically < call out the troops to stand muster > b. < eleven hand tub fire pumpers … have entered the Riverside Park Championship Fireman's muster — Springfield (Massachusetts) Daily News > c. Australia d. (1) < a muster of biographical facts — Time > < last week's muster of the heads of … governments — R.H.Rovere > (2) of peacocks e. < were sent … to take the musters of this expedition — G.R.Elton > |
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