mother-ship

基本解釋

The undertaker asked, 'Why would you spend ?5,000 to ship your mother-in-law home, when it would be wonderful to have her buried here and spend only ?150?
殯儀人員問道，“為什么要花5000英鎊運(yùn)岳母回家，葬在這里只花150英鎊，這很好呀？”
Under the design speed, the propulsive efficiencies of the special stern shapes will be increased by more than 15%, 20%, 10%, 8-10% compared with corresponding mother ship respectively.
在設(shè)計(jì)航速下，與各自的對比常規(guī)雙槳船型相比較，提高推進(jìn)效率分別為15％以上，20％以上，10%左右，8-10%。
Japan has suspended its annual whale hunt in the Antarctic for now after a hardline anti-whaling group gave chase to its mother ship and it may call the fleet back home, a government official said.
日本某政府官員日前表示，由于捕鯨船隊(duì)母艦受到態(tài)度強(qiáng)硬的反捕鯨團(tuán)體的追捕，將暫停本年度在南極海域的捕鯨活動，并可能下令捕鯨船隊(duì)返航。

The idea is to create an impressive extraterrestrial firework display to celebrate the success of the American rebellion while at the same time allowing the mother-ship to record what is inside the comet.
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Every half-hour or so, a black-clad Apple employee would emerge from the massive, monolithic mother ship--kind of like a Steve Jobs Mini-Me--to indoctrinate a group of Apple fans on the intricacies of Apple's Time Machine backup software or other Mac marvels.
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Meanwhile in Egypt, the agenda of the Islamists' mother ship - the Muslim Brotherhood - is being adopted even before elections formally bring it to power.
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