batten down

batten down

• • 【航海学】封舱，用油布盖住(舱口)钉上扣板(使密封不漏水)，(暴风雨或失火时)钉上扣板密封(舱口)：

    There's a storm coming, so let's batten down the hatches.

    暴风雨快来了，让我们封舱吧。

  • 采取坚决行动(准备应付麻烦)，采取果断行动以迎接困难：

    The trade union battened down.

    工会采取果断行动以迎接困难。

• nucleins
• podothecal
• effectivenesses
• laminar flows
• clusterbombed
• Dachau
• sb's native soil
• anthroponomy
• floating charge
• emulative of
• Senzas
• squirrels-foot fern
• nucleonic
• supervisor call
• tubenose fish
• get a rap on the knuckles
• consumer sales resistance
• prospectors
• intermediate host
• flemings
• episodical
• Elohist
• take the helm of
• functioned
• decimal code
• jivaroes
• never-get-overs
• corneal reflex
• have ants in one's pants
• erks
• balmoral
• seed fern
• potential of zero charge
• Fu Manchu mustache
• potash bentonite
• litigators
• pipette
• galleta
• survival kit
• magnetic character reader
• eudemon
• call sb / sth
• malvasian
• onychectomies
• tetrazoliums
• head hit
• vegetals
• Palauan
• Heine-Borel theorem
• -cidal
• golfings
• dele
• ambushlike
• cooperativeness
• t tests
• plyerss
• switchers
• corner tree
• hot rolling
• floating control
• hulk up
• fien-dishly
• deductibilities
• beerachite
• in a faint
• spinule
• red-tapists
• Whitworth, Sir Joseph
• yeast cell
• phrasals
• gangwayed
• hemotroph
• erythroblasts
• knight of the road
• chilliest
• Babinet compensator
• torsiometer
• encephalography
• diathermancies
• -aholic
• kilroys
• twentypenny
• bagnette
• write a good hand
• thrust-augmented
• typewritten
• restraint of trade
• bad luck (on someone)
• thoughtful
• phyto-
• keep an eye on
• standpoints
• Photofluorographies
• funny ha-ha
• procreations
• backloadings
• food web
• trophocytes
• bone.
• idrialite