英语释义

1. to grow fat

2. to feed gluttonously

3. to grow prosperous especially at the expense of another —usually used with on

4. fatten

5. a piece of lumber used especially for flooring

6. a thin narrow strip of lumber used especially to seal or reinforce a joint

7. a strip, bar, or support resembling or used similarly to a batten (as in a sail)

8. to furnish with battens

9. to fasten with or as if with battens —often used with down

10. to make one secure by or as if by battens
battening down for the hurricane

11. to prepare for a difficult or dangerous situation

12. a long thin piece of wood that is used to connect and support other pieces of wood

13. to secure by or as if by fastening —often used with down
Everything on the ship's deck was battened down.

14. to prepare for possible trouble or difficulty —often used with down
People battened down in preparation for winter.

片语

hatch battening arrangement[船]

battening arrangement压紧装置

battening bar压条舱围压条

battening device压紧装置

hatch battening arrangment封舱装置

batten down封舱；采取果断行动以迎接困难

battening down封舱；采取果断行动以迎接困难

And Implements Battening并进行打纬

battening iron压条

batten on靠…养肥；靠…而兴旺

batten down the hatches（喻）未雨绸缪；做好準备

battening wedge封舱楔

英汉例句

• A news report, for example, might say that people in Washington were battening down the hatches for a big winter storm.

  例如，一则新闻报道可以说，华盛顿的人们正準备迎战暴风雪。

• He was busy battening down all the shutters and doors.

  他正忙着用板条钉牢所有的百叶窗和门。

• Hollywood is battening down the hatches in expectation of a strike by actors and writers this summer.

  好莱坞正在做好準备应付今年夏天的演员和作家罢工。

• The herdsman drove afield battening his flocks with the fresh dews of night.

  牧人把羊群赶到野外，用夜晚的新鲜露水催肥。

• A man doesn「t feel right, battening on his in-laws.

  一个男人要靠姻亲过活是不好受的。

• Sailors were dashing about battening hatches, running lines, clearing the decks, lashing down everything that was not already lashed down.

  水手们在甲板上奔波着钉上活门，整理绳索，清理甲板，绑紧任何没绑紧的东西。

• By this time the wind and sea were getting far too big for this boat and normally we would be thinking about hove 」ing too and battening down the hatches.

  风浪这时已经远远超出了我们这艘船的承受力，我们本来应该考虑让船进入求生存状态的。