sextant

[美]/'sekst(ə)nt/
[英]/'sɛkstənt/
词频: 极高

释义

n. (航海用的)六分仪
词形变化
复数sextants

例句

The sailor used a sextant to navigate the open sea.

水手使用六分仪在开阔的海洋上导航。

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

六分仪是一种用于测量两个可见物体之间角度的导航仪器。

Mariners rely on a sextant for celestial navigation.

水手依靠六分仪进行天文导航。

The sextant was invented in the 18th century.

六分仪是在18世纪发明的。

Using a sextant requires knowledge of celestial navigation principles.

使用六分仪需要了解天文导航原理。

The sextant is an essential tool for nautical navigation.

六分仪是航海导航的必备工具。

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

熟练的航海员可以使用六分仪准确确定位置。

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

六分仪可以帮助水手在海上找到纬度和经度。

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

现代六分仪通常由黄铜或铝等耐用材料制成。

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

一些水手仍然将六分仪用作备用导航工具。

原声例句

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

这是个古董六分仪,水手使用这个配合星星来确认自身方位。

来源: The Big Bang Theory Season 9

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

救生艇上有六分仪和磁罗经。

来源: Maritime English listening

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

尼摩船长带了他的六分仪,测量太阳的高度,因此可以。知道船所在的纬度。

来源: 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.

舱底的一个行李袋里装着收音机、六分仪、指南针和时钟,以备不时之需。

来源: The Economist (Summary)

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

这个六分仪,50美元,非常超值。

来源: Science fiction movie

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

为此, 您需要一个指南针、一个六分仪以及对夜空的了解。

来源: The daily life of a chatty orange.

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

晚上,他躲在阴暗处,用六分仪观察星空。

来源: Pan Pan

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

这个地方存放着各种各样的六分仪、象限仪、望远镜、星盘和其他天文仪器。

来源: 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.

公元前数百年,天文学家首次使用它们,水手们在中世纪使用它们,直到六分仪取代了星盘。

来源: 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.

有旧钟和花瓶、迫击炮和曲颈瓶、刀和洋娃娃、羽毛笔和书挡、八分仪和六分仪、圆规和气压计。

来源: Sophie's World (Original Version)

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