hull down

hull down

• (船)远得只见船桅，不见船身；(坦克等)隐蔽得只露出炮塔：

  Having stayed at a small isolated island for about a month, I saw a vessel heave in sight, hull down.

  在一个小孤岛呆了将近一个月后，我终于看见一艘轮船驶入视线，可以看到船的桅杆了。

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• xenophobia
• compulsorily
• Adams, Walter Sydney
• bamberger
• as clean as a whistle
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• hexapodous
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• tongers
• pendents
• let something drop
• be in the ascendant
• old souths
• be on one's back
• invincible armadas
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• mood music
• clustered file
• Norse
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• Nemean
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• incompliantly
• thesis
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• balanced dietary
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• unmeaning
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• skinlike
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• show much feeling for
• exocardiac
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