英:['mesmeɪt]
美:['mesˌmeɪt]
英:['mesmeɪt]
美:['mesˌmeɪt]
mess·mate
mes meIt
"混乱中的伙伴",尤指船上的伙食; "通常与另一个人在同一桌吃饭的人",1746年,来自 mess(n.)"共同进餐的地方" + mate (n.),其词源意义是"与同桌进餐的人,伙伴"。
The first known use of messmate was in 1664
metaversenoun
a persistent virtual environment that allows access to and interaction between multiple individual virtual realitiesalso: any of the individual virtual environments that make up a metaverse
the hypothetical combination of all co-existing or sequentially existing universes
metastasizeverb
to spread or grow by or as if by metastasis
metaphysicaladjective
of, relating to, or based on metaphysics
supernatural sense 1
difficult to understand : abstract
metalworknoun
the product of metalworking
messmatenoun
a member of a mess (as on a ship)
1 He hurried up his supper to give the tired messmate a warm welcome, but no one came.
2 You ought rather to fawn upon and be gentle towards your messmates, lest we should institute a festival for dog killing, in the place of that one which is celebrated by the Argives.
3 Many of the Cape Otway koalas wouldn’t touch the stuff and starved to death, with the messmate trees in plain view.
4 As Rigg, an old friend of mine, later told me, Liebling put himself at ease during the pause, most notably as a messmate.
5 These and such like scraps of conversation began to give me a little insight into the kind of mess I had joined and the character of my future messmates.
6 I felt sorry to leave my messmates, but against this feeling came the knowledge that I was adrift already, and must go to Nagasaki first, then find conveyance to China and perhaps to Europe.
7 Government paid the reward over into the hands of the coastguard, who all subscribed liberally towards the comfort of their wounded messmate.
8 To test whether the different diets were the cause or the result of the different microbiomes, the researchers transplanted faeces from six wild koalas that ate messmate into six wild koalas that preferred manna gum.
9 “End of the hike, messmates,” he shouted, executing a droll dance on his snowshoes and waving his long arms like windmills.
10 Most important was that the koalas that had been seeded with the new bacteria actually went on to eat more messmate than the control group.
11 However, some koalas eat only messmate and others only manna gum.
12 Upon this one of the sailors, turning to his messmate, observed, "Ay, Jack, that's just the way at the Old Bailey; the greatest rogue always turns king's evidence."
13 Sir, let him up; 'tis my dear comrade, my messmate in the Jesus.
14 For a time his messmate could even hear him singing a stave of that charming old song— “Good-night—all’s well.”
15 He ate his supper with his messmates, and he ate heartily as usual.
16 Sitting by the roadside on a summer day, Chatting with my messmates, passing time away, Lying in the shadow underneath the trees, Goodness, how delicious, eating goober peas!
17 The presence of bacteria associated with messmate digestion skyrocketed, said Michaela Blyton, an ecologist at the University of Queensland and the lead author of a paper describing the findings.
18 “Putting both events together, boys,” said the doctor to his messmates, “I really don’t think we can do better than invite the skipper to dinner.”
19 Oh! but those three poor fellows will live for many a day and many a year in the memory of their messmates.
20 Out would come the violin, and his messmates would speedily be in dreamland as they listened; for the doctor played well on that king of instruments.