muster

英 ['m?st?] 美['m?st?]

TEM8IELTSGRE低頻詞擴(kuò)展詞匯

第三人稱單數(shù):?musters;過去式:?mustered;過去分詞:?mustered;現(xiàn)在分詞:?mustering;

muster 召集，聚集

來自拉丁語monstrare,顯示，展示，來自monere,提醒，警告，詞源同admonish,demonstration.后用于軍事術(shù)語指召集，聚集，戰(zhàn)前動(dòng)員等。鼻音n脫落，比較dental,tooth.

muster: muster: see monster
muster (v.): c. 1300, "to display, reveal, appear," from Old French mostrer "appear, show, reveal," also in a military sense (10c., Modern French montrer), from Latin monstrare "to show," from monstrum "omen, sign" (see monster). Meaning "to collect, assemble" is early 15c.; figurative use (of qualities, etc.) is from 1580s. To muster out "gather to be discharged from military service" is 1834, American English. To muster up in the figurative and transferred sense of "gather, summon, marshal" is from 1620s. Related: Mustered; mustering.
muster (n.): late 14c., "action of showing, manifestation," from Old French mostre "illustration, proof; examination, inspection" (13c., Modern French montre), literally "that which is shown," from mostrer (see muster (v.)). Meaning "act of gathering troops" is from c. 1400. To pass musters (1570s) originally meant "to undergo military review without censure."

1. Muster needed just 72 minutes to win the one-sided match, 6-2, 6-3.: 穆斯特爾僅用72分鐘便以6比2、6比3拿下了這場實(shí)力懸殊的比賽。

3. He travelled around West Africa trying to muster support for his movement.: 他在西非四處奔走，為自己的運(yùn)動(dòng)爭取支持。