365天地道英語學習
第177天
習語學習時間|全速前進
full steam ahead: proceed with all possible speed and power
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例句
The captain of the team shouted, "Full steam ahead!" to get his tired players onto the field.
隊長喊道「全速前進!」來鼓舞疲憊的士兵重新回到戰場上。
In the early days of trains, about 150 years ago, locomotives were powered by steam engines. Ocean liners crossed the seas propelled by steam. Thousands of steamboats sailed up and down America's major rivers. Mark Twain was a pilot on a steamboat on the Mississippi. There was even a car that ran on steam.
在大約150年前,火車發明的早期,機車由蒸汽機提供動力,遠洋客輪在蒸汽推動下越過海洋, 成千上萬的汽船在美國主要河流上航行。馬克·吐溫(Mark Twain)曾是密西西比州一艘汽船上的船員。甚至有一輛汽車也是在蒸汽的動力下在運轉。
When the captain of a ship or the engineer of a train shouted, "Full steam ahead!" it meant "Put the steam boiler up to maximum pressure so we can go faster." (For that reason, the captain could also shout, "Full speed ahead!")
當輪船長或火車工程師大喊這一習語時,就意味著「將蒸汽鍋爐的壓力升至最大,這樣我們才能更快地前進。」 (因此,機長也可能會喊「full speed ahead!」)
This expression became very popular after Rear Admiral David G. Farragut used it at the Battle of Mobile Bay during the Civil War in August 1864 to get his fleet moving forward quickly.
1864年8月內戰期間,海軍少將戴維·法拉格特(David G. Farragut)在莫比爾灣戰役中使用了這個習語來鼓舞他的艦隊迅速前進,隨後這種表達變得非常流行。
Today you can use this expression while working on any project. The opposite of "full steam ahead" is to "run out of steam" when you're exhausted and can't go another step.
如今在做任何項目時都可以使用這個習語。它的反義詞是run out of steam, 意思是精疲力竭、不能再繼續前進了。
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詞彙
trade [treɪd] 行業
master [ˈmɑːstə(r)] 大師