half-staff
基本解释
- n. 半旗（同 half-mast）
- v. 下半旗（同 half-mast）
英汉例句
- I also request the people of the United States to display the flag at half-staff from their homes for the customary forenoon period.
我也要求美国人民在自己的住所依午前传统降半旗。 - On Thursday, her body rested at a morgue in Roanoke, where state and U.S. flags were lowered to half-staff and police heavily guarded access.
周四，她的躯体安息在Roanoke的灵堂里。 这里的美国国旗降至一半，警察严密守卫。 - Sirens wailed, flags flew at half-staff and navy ships sounded whistles as South Korea honored the 40 sailors known to have died and 6 others who are missing and presumed dead.
韩国为纪念40名遇难以及6名失踪官兵，汽笛鸣哀，国旗半降，舰艇鸣笛。 - National flags across India will be flown at half-staff Friday to mourn the death of the chief minister of the key southern state of Andhra Pradesh.
- Officials say it took staff on Christmas Island about half-an-hour to regain control.
- A military official tells VOA the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, traveled to Germany Friday for an unannounced half-day meeting on a U.S.Air Base with the Afghanistan commander, General Stanley McChrystal.
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原声例句
英英字典
- the position of a flag that is halfway down the pole, usually as an expression of sadness at a death or sad public event
- (of a flag) in or to a position halfway down the pole, usually as an expression of public sadness
- used to describe a flag or its position when it is halfway down the pole, usually as an expression of public sadness