muster

英 ['mʌstə] 美 ['mʌstɚ]

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※ 提供单词"muster"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

muster 召集，聚集

来自拉丁语monstrare,显示，展示，来自monere,提醒，警告，词源同admonish,demonstration.后用于军事术语指召集，聚集，战前动员等。鼻音n脱落，比较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."

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1. Muster needed just 72 minutes to win the one-sided match, 6-2, 6-3.: 穆斯特尔仅用72分钟便以6比2、6比3拿下了这场实力悬殊的比赛。

3. He travelled around West Africa trying to muster support for his movement.: 他在西非四处奔走，为自己的运动争取支持。