单词 | main |
释义 | main2 /mein; men/ n 1 [C] (often 常作 the ~s) principal pipe bringing water or gas, principal wire transmitting electric current, from the source of supply into a building (contrasted with pipes from a cistern inside the building, etc); principal sewer to which pipes from a building are con-nected: (自来水、燃气、电流、下水道等的) 总管; 总线; 干管; 干线 (以别于建筑物内的支线): My new house is not yet connected to the ~s. 我的新房子 (的水电) 还没有接上干线。 We take our electric current from the ~s. 我们从总电线接上电流。' ~s set, radio set to be connected to the ~s for current, not a battery set. 用总线电流的收音机 (不用电池的) 。 2 in the ~, for the most part; on the whole. 大体上;从全体看来; 就一般而论。 3 with might and ~, cmight1. 4 (poet) sea, esp a wide expanse of sea. (诗) 海; (尤指) 大海; 沧海。 5 the Spanish M ~,that part of the NE coast of S America and the adjoining part of the Caribbean Sea, visited by the early Spanish navigators. 拉丁美洲大陆 (指早牟西班牙航海者所到达的南美洲东北海岸以及邻近的加勒比视部分漫面) 。 |
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