sextants

美 [?sekst?nt] 　英 ['sekst?nt]

• n.六分儀；【天】六分儀(星)座；〈罕〉圓的六分之一
• 網(wǎng)絡(luò)六檢查區(qū)位；六個部位

詞形變化

復數(shù)：sextants  

英漢解釋

n.	1. 六分儀 2. 【天】六分儀(星)座 3. 〈罕〉圓的六分之一

英英解釋

n.	1. a piece of equipment that sailors use for looking at the stars so that they can calculate the position of their ship

例句

Third Mate: We have sextants and magnetic compass on board the boat.

三副：救生艇上有六分儀和磁羅經(jīng)。

There are many who insist that the paradigms of greed, arrogance and usurpation are the true reference points for our sextants.

有很多人堅持認為貪婪、傲慢自大和強取豪奪的范式是我們的六分儀的真正的參考點。

And we are setting our sextants clearly upon these cosmic beacons.

并且我們正在設(shè)置我們的六分儀以使之清晰的對準宇宙的燈塔。