-
N-COUNT
錨
An anchor is a heavy hooked object that is dropped from a boat into the water at the end of a chain in order to make the boat stay in one place.
-
V-ERG
拋錨；使停泊
When a boat anchors or when you anchor it, its anchor is dropped into the water in order to make it stay in one place.
例句
We could anchor off the pier...
我們可以在碼頭附近下錨停泊。
They anchored the boat.
他們拋錨停船。
-
VERB
把…系住；使穩住；使固定
If you anchor an object somewhere, you fix it to something to prevent it moving from that place.
例句
The roots anchor the plant in the earth...
根部使植物固定在土壤中。
The child seat belt was not properly anchored to the car.
兒童坐椅的安全帶并未在車上固定到位。
-
N-COUNT
固定樁；系縛物；支柱；靠山
If one thing is the anchor for something else, it makes that thing stable and secure.
例句
He provided an emotional anchor for her...
他是她的精神支柱。
He remains the anchor of the country's fragile political balance.
他仍然是維系該國脆弱的政治平衡的支柱。
-
VERB
與…有緊密聯系;使扎根;使固守
If something is anchored in something or to something, it has strong links with it.
例句
A united Germany must be firmly anchored in NATO if Europe is to remain stable...
歐洲要保持穩定，德國必須統一并固守北約。
His basic outlook remains anchored in the liberal tradition.
他的基本觀念依舊扎根于自由主義傳統。
-
VERB
主持（電視或電臺節目，尤指新聞節目）
The person who anchors a television or radio programme, especially a news programme, is the person who presents it and acts as a link between interviews and reports which come from other places or studios.
例句
Viewers saw him anchoring a five-minute summary of regional news.
觀眾看見他主持一個5分鐘的地方新聞摘要節目。
...a series of cassettes on the Vietnam War, anchored by Mr. Cronkite.
克朗凱特先生主持的關于越南戰爭的系列節目錄像帶
-
N-COUNT
（尤指新聞節目的）電（視）臺節目主持人
The anchor on a television or radio programme, especially a news programme, is the person who presents it.
例句
He worked in the news division of ABC — he was the anchor of its 15-minute evening newscast.
他在美國廣播公司的新聞部工作——他是晚間15分鐘新聞播報的主持人。
-
PHRASE
（船）拋著錨，停泊著
If a boat is at anchor, it is floating in a particular place and is prevented from moving by its anchor.
例句
Sailing boats lay at anchor in the narrow waterway.
帆船停泊在狹窄的水道上。
-
PHRASE
拋錨;下錨
When the people on a boat drop anchor or cast anchor, they drop the boat's anchor into the water in order to prevent the boat from moving.
例句
We dropped anchor in a sheltered spot.
我們在一個能夠遮風擋雨的地方下了錨。
-
PHRASE
起錨；啟航
When the people on a boat weigh anchor or up anchor, they pull the anchor of the boat out of the water so that they can sail away.