The great ship slipped her moorings and slid out into the Atlantic.
这艘大船脱锚漂到了大西洋。
2TTW[countableC] the place where a ship or boat is moored 〔船只的〕系泊处,停泊地,泊位
a temporary mooring
临时泊位
Examples from the Corpus
mooring• Slowly, each of their minds unhitched from its moorings in the body and spun.• The three paused at the water's edge, not far from Water Gypsy's moorings.• She looked for the yacht but another boat was on the mooring it had used.• The oyster boats were still fixed to the moorings, a sure sign that Oystermouth was in mourning.• The moorings are too close to towncentre.• In the water; the boats rocked at their moorings, their tunatowersswaying.• Several ships had broken their moorings during the storm.• The nearby Mokelumne Riverripped a half-dozen boats from their moorings and slammed them into a bridge down river.• The signalbuoys that might have guided them to safety had been ripped from their moorings by the violentwinds.• Stultz headed back to their mooring, a few hundred yardseast of the Trepassey town dock.
VERB + MOORING | MOORING + NOUNVERB + MOORING➤be torn from, break loose from, come loose from, slip從繫泊處斷開;從繫泊處脫離;棄錨◇During the storm several of our boats were torn from their moorings.暴風雨中,我們的幾艘船從繫泊處脫錨了。◇The crowds cheered as the great ship slipped her moorings.巨輪起錨時,人群爆發出歡呼聲。MOORING + NOUN➤line, post, rope (especially BrE) 錨繩;繫泊樁;繫泊纜繩