英语词汇“jib”的音标、意思、用法及中文翻译-反思网

the cut of someone's jib

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The phrase the cut of his jib suggests that you can judge people from their appearance and had a special significance for the sailor.
The jib is the triangular sail in the forepart of the ship and the first sail one would see as a vessel approached.
It was a prop or chain passing down from the jib-boom end to the dolphin striker and staying the jib-boom against the upward pull of the jib and jib-stay. 13.
As the crane lifted the king post vertically, the jib of the crane began to buckle.
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The extension of the franchise in the last 100 years was, fortunately, stopped at adult franchise—even the most ardent egalitarian jibbed at animal franchise.
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It is the unions that might be expected to jib at the lack of success of their members at tribunals.
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It would perhaps be pedantic for me to jib at the word "global".
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No wonder that the leaders jibbed and then broke away, leaving the coach in the middle of the road, but still unbroken.
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A great deal has been done to screen the jib and it has been done every day to an increasing extent.
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I should not have thought he need jib at this comparatively modest alteration.
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During the same time the jib, boiler, and machinery will be in course of construction.
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What we have seen in the last few months—indeed, the last couple of years—is that we jib at the price we have to pay.
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I say "a certain amount": some of them do jib a bit at the present restrictions.
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I do not know whether we should jib at the word.
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Now it is a matter-of-fact phrase—people do not jib at it.
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jibnoun[C] (BOAT)

jibnoun[C] (LIFTING TOOL)

Idiom

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