sextant

[美國]/'sekst(ə)nt/
[英國]/'sɛkstənt/
詞頻: 非常高

中文釋義

n. (航海用的)六分儀
Word Forms
複數sextants

例句

The sailor used a sextant to navigate the open sea.

水手使用六分儀在開闊的海洋上導航。

A sextant is a navigational instrument used to measure the angle between two visible objects.

六分儀是一種用於測量兩個可見物體之間角度的導航儀器。

Mariners rely on a sextant for celestial navigation.

水手依靠六分儀進行天文導航。

The sextant was invented in the 18th century.

六分儀是在18世紀發明的。

Using a sextant requires knowledge of celestial navigation principles.

使用六分儀需要了解天文導航原理。

The sextant is an essential tool for nautical navigation.

六分儀是航海導航的必備工具。

A skilled navigator can accurately determine their position using a sextant.

熟練的航海員可以使用六分儀準確確定位置。

The sextant allows sailors to find their latitude and longitude at sea.

六分儀可以幫助水手在海上找到緯度和經度。

Modern sextants are often made of durable materials like brass or aluminum.

現代六分儀通常由黃銅或鋁等耐用材料製成。

Sextants are still used by some sailors as a backup navigation tool.

一些水手仍然將六分儀用作備用導航工具。

原聲例句

It's an antique sextant. Sailors used these to find their position by the stars.

這是個古董六分儀,水手使用這個配合星星來確認自身方位。

來源: The Big Bang Theory Season 9

Third mate: we have sextants and magnetic compass on board the boat.

救生艇上有六分儀和磁羅經。

來源: Maritime English listening

Raising his sextant, Captain Nemo took the altitude of the sun, which would give him his latitude.

尼摩船長帶了他的六分儀,測量太陽的高度,因此可以。知道船所在的緯度。

來源: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Original Version)

Down in the bilge, in a duffel bag, were a radio, sextant, compass and clock, in case of emergency.

艙底的一個行李袋裏裝着收音機、六分儀、指南針和時鐘,以備不時之需。

來源: The Economist (Summary)

Like the sextant here. $50 for this, which is a bargain.

這個六分儀,50美元,非常超值。

來源: Science fiction movie

For this, you'll need a compass, a sextant, and an understanding of the night sky.

爲此, 您需要一個指南針、一個六分儀以及對夜空的瞭解。

來源: The daily life of a chatty orange.

At nights, he hid in the shade, looking into the sky with a sextant.

晚上,他躲在陰暗處,用六分儀觀察星空。

來源: Pan Pan

The place is stored with great variety of sextants, quadrants, telescopes, astrolabes, and other astronomical instruments.

這個地方存放着各種各樣的六分儀、象限儀、望遠鏡、星盤和其他天文儀器。

來源: Gulliver's Travels (Original Version)

They were first used by astronomers hundreds of years B.C. and sailors used them in the Middle Ages until astrolabes were replaced by sextants.

公元前數百年,天文學家首次使用它們,水手們在中世紀使用它們,直到六分儀取代了星盤。

來源: CNN 10 Student English March 2019 Collection

There were old clocks and vases, mortars and retorts, knives and dolls, quill pens and bookends, octants and sextants, compasses and barometers.

有舊鐘和花瓶、迫擊炮和曲頸瓶、刀和洋娃娃、羽毛筆和書擋、八分儀和六分儀、圓規和氣壓計。

來源: Sophie's World (Original Version)

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