gaff

英 [gæf]

1. a spar rising aft from a mast to support the head of a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail

I can reach him with the gaff and eat him here in comfort. ": 我可以用鱼钩把它钓过来,在这儿舒舒服服地吃. ”

I can reach it with the gaff and eat it here in comfort.: 我可以用鱼钩去把它钩过来,坐在这儿舒舒服服地吃掉它.

What did you figure to do when you drove overboard with the gaff?: 你拿着鱼叉跳下水的那会儿,你考虑过该怎么干吗 ?

Shandy Gaff is made with equal parts of beer and ginger ale.: 这款鸡尾酒的配方是等分的啤酒和干姜汁.

Hanging the gaff down can spill the wind out of the sail.: 把桅上斜杆放下来可以减少风的阻力.

Can you put a rope into his nose, or pierce through his cheek with a gaff?: 你岂能以鼻圈穿过它的鼻子, 以钩子刺透它的腮骨?

EX : If you want to succeed in this field, you'll have to stand the gaff.: 如果你想在这一行成功, 就必须要勇敢的承受磨难.

They killed Green because he was about to blow the gaff on their drug dealing.: 他们杀死了格林,因为他要把他们贩毒的事情说出去.

复数: gaffs;

gaff 手钩，挽钩

来自PIE*kap, 抓住，词源同capture, have. 用来指鱼钩。

gaff (n.1): "iron hook," c. 1300, gaffe, from Old French gaffe "boat hook" (see gaffe). Specifically of the hook on a fishing spear from 1650s. As a type of spar from 1769. Related: gaff-hook.
gaff (n.2): "talk," 1812, in phrase blow the gaff "spill a secret," of uncertain origin. OED points out Old English gafspræc "blasphemous or ribald speech," and Scottish gaff "loud, rude talk" (by 1825). Compare gaffe.
gaff (n.3): "cheap music hall or theater; place of amusement for the lowest classes," 1812, British slang, earlier "a fair" (1753), of unknown origin.

2. I can reach him with the gaff and eat him here in comfort. ": 我可以用鱼钩把它钓过来,在这儿舒舒服服地吃. ”

3. I can reach it with the gaff and eat it here in comfort.: 我可以用鱼钩去把它钩过来,坐在这儿舒舒服服地吃掉它.

4. What did you figure to do when you drove overboard with the gaff?: 你拿着鱼叉跳下水的那会儿,你考虑过该怎么干吗 ?

5. Shandy Gaff is made with equal parts of beer and ginger ale.: 这款鸡尾酒的配方是等分的啤酒和干姜汁.