4. mate：multi – terminal access and transfer equipment; 多終端接入和測試設備
mate詞典解釋
1. 伙伴，朋友(尤指男性之間) You can refer to someone's friends as their mates, especially when you are talking about a man and his male friends.
mate的解釋
e.g. He's off drinking with his mates... 他跟哥兒們出去喝酒了。 e.g. A mate of mine used to play soccer for Liverpool. 我的一個(gè)朋友在利物浦隊踢過(guò)球。
2. (用于男性之間的稱(chēng)呼)老兄，老弟 Some men use mate as a way of addressing other men when they are talking to them.
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e.g. Come on mate, things aren't that bad. 別灰心，兄弟，事情沒(méi)那么糟。
3. 配偶;性伙伴 Someone's wife, husband, or sexual partner can be referred to as their mate .
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e.g. He has found his ideal mate. 他找到了理想的伴侶。 e.g. ...as women do become as powerful in the marketplace as their mates. 隨著(zhù)女人在商界的確變得和男人一樣強大
4. (動(dòng)物的)配偶，交配對象 An animal's mate is its sexual partner.
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e.g. The males guard their mates zealously. 雄性動(dòng)物死死地守護著(zhù)他們的配偶。
5. 交配;交尾 When animals mate, a male and a female have sex in order to produce young.
mate的近義詞
e.g. This allows the pair to mate properly and stops the hen staying in the nest-box... 這樣可以使這對公雞和母雞正常交配，讓母雞不再呆在雞窩里。 e.g. They want the males to mate with wild females... 他們希望這些雄性動(dòng)物可以和野生的雌性動(dòng)物交配。
6. (商船上的)大副；（亦指）船員 On a commercial ship, the mate or the first mate is the most important officer except for the captain. Officers of lower rank are also called mates .
e.g. ...the mate of a fishing trawler. 拖網(wǎng)漁船上的大副
7. (美國海軍的)軍士 In the United States Navy, a mate is a petty officer who has a particular set of skills and who assists a warrant officer.
8. (象棋中) 同 checkmate In chess, mate is the same as checkmate .
9. see also: cellmate;classmate;flatmate;playmate;roommate;running mate;schoolmate;shipmate;soul mate
mate英英釋義
noun
1. a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king
Synonym: checkmate
2. an exact duplicate
e.g. when a match is found an entry is made in the notebook
Synonym: match
3. South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate
4. the officer below the master on a commercial ship
Synonym: first mate
5. informal term for a friend of the same sex
6. the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner)
e.g. he loved the mare and all her mates camels hate leaving their mates
7. a person's partner in marriage
Synonym: spousepartnermarried personbetter half
8. a fellow member of a team
e.g. it was his first start against his former teammates
Synonym: teammate
9. South American holly leaves used in making a drink like tea
Synonym: Paraguay teaIlex paraguariensis
10. one of a pair
e.g. he lost the mate to his shoe one eye was blue but its fellow was brown
Synonym: fellow
mate的近義詞
verb
1. place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game
e.g. Kasparov checkmated his opponent after only a few moves
Synonym: checkmate
2. bring two objects, ideas, or people together
e.g. This fact is coupled to the other one Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man? The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project