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astern ad. 在船尾,在后,向后 在船尾,在後,向後 astern adv 1: stern foremost or backward; " the steamer went astern at half speed" 2: at or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane; " stow the luggage aft"; " ships with square sails sail fairly efficiently with the wind abaft"; " the captain looked astern to see what the fuss was about" [ synonym: { aft}, { abaft}, { astern}] [ ant: { fore}, { forward}] 3: ( of a ship or an airplane) behind; " we dropped her astern on the end of a seven- inch manilla, and she laid comfortably on the ebb tide" Astern \ A* stern"\, adv. [ Pref. a- stern.] ( Naut.) 1. In or at the hinder part of a ship; toward the hinder part, or stern; backward; as, to go astern. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Behind a ship; in the rear. " A gale of wind right astern." -- De Foe. " Left this strait astern." -- Drake. [ 1913 Webster] { To bake astern}, to go stern foremost. { To be astern of the reckoning}, to be behind the position given by the reckoning. { To drop astern}, to fall or be left behind. { To go astern}, to go backward, as from the action of currents or winds. [ 1913 Webster] 25 Moby Thesaurus words for " astern": a rebours, a reculons, abaft, aft, after, against the grain, anticlockwise, arear, ass- backwards, away, back, backward, backwards, baft, counterclockwise, fore and aft, fro, hindward, hindwards, in reverse, rear, rearward, rearwards, retrad, widdershins
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