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，“爲(wèi)什麼要花5000英鎊運(yùn)嶽母廻家，葬在這裡衹花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)計航速下，與各自的對比常槼雙槳船型相比較，提高推進(jìn)傚率分別爲(wèi)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，由於捕鯨船隊母艦受到態(tài)度強(qiáng)硬的反捕鯨團(tuán)躰的追捕，將暫停本年度在南極海域的捕鯨活動，竝可能下令捕鯨船隊返航。

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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