有一句俚语叫：take the wind out of your sails 你的帆没有了风，那船就开不动了，意思是使你泄气，没力气或斗志再去做某事了。这里put the wind in someone's sails 意思正好相反 （虽然不是标准俚语用法），给你的帆加一阵风，意思可以是，助某人一臂之力等等。具体要看上下文指什么了。p...
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Technology, Sponsorships Put Wind in the Sails of YachtiesBYLINE: SYMA MOHAMMEDCape Times (South Africa)
“The Cold War put the wind in the sails of the rightists, who had always been fierce anti-Communists. After the Communist revolution in China in 1949 and the outbreak of war in Korea, the United States was more worried about purging Japan’s leftists than its rightists. The ruling conser...
notal lobes as parachutes, and the latter from thysanuroid insects living in crevices of the soil and using paranotal lobes as sails in the wind... ML Greca - 《On the Evolution of Arthropods & Tetrapods》 被引量: 18发表: 1980年 3 - The Wind in One's Sails: A Philosophy This...
2. disconcert, confuse, unsettle, throw (informal), distress, rattle (informal), dismay, perturb, faze, discomfit, take the wind out of someone's sails, nonplus, abash All this noise is putting me off. put someone out1. inconvenience, trouble, upset, bother, disturb, impose upon, disco...
26.put in for,to apply for or request:to put in for a transfer. 27.put off, a.to postpone; defer. b.to get rid of by evasion or delay. c.to disconcert or perturb:We were put off by the book's abusive tone. 28.put on, ...
Nautical, Naval Terms in stays, (of a fore-and-aft-rigged vessel) heading into the wind with sails shaking, as in coming about. v.t. Nautical, Naval Termsto support or secure with a stay or stays:to stay a mast. Nautical, Naval Termsto put (a ship) on the other tack. v.i. ...
Donations Put Wind in Sails of Charity [Edition 2]Davies, Ginette
The boats put out to sea with the wind in their sails.Los barcos zarparon a la mar con el viento en sus velas. 18. (slang) (to agree to sex) (United States) a.irse a la cama Everyone had told her not to put out on the first date.Todos le habían dicho de no irse a la ca...