mustered

英 [ˈmʌstəd]

美 [ˈmʌstərd]

v.  找寻，聚集，激起(支持、勇气等); 集合，召集，集结(尤指部队); 赶拢(牛、羊)
muster的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• VERB 聚集(支持力量);奋(力);集中(精力)
  If youmustersomething such as support, strength, or energy, you gather as much of it as you can in order to do something.
  1. 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。
  2. Mustering all her strength, Nancy pulled hard on both oars.
     南希使出所有力气，用力划动双桨。
• V-ERG 召集，集合(士兵)
  When soldiersmusterorare mustered, they gather together in one place in order to take part in a military action.
  1. The men mustered before their clan chiefs...
     男人们聚集在族长们面前。
  2. The general had mustered his troops north of the Hindu Kush.
     将军在兴都库什山脉以北集结军队。
• PHRASE 合格;符合要求
  If someone or somethingpasses muster, they are good enough for the thing they are needed for.
  1. I could not pass muster in his language...
     我说不好他的语言。
  2. If it doesn't pass muster, a radio station could have its license challenged.
     如果不合要求，电台可能会被吊销执照。

双语例句

• They seem to have been badly selected, hastily mustered, inadequately trained and poorly equipped.
  他们好象都是马马虎虎派来的人，集合仓促，训练不足，装备也糟糕。
• He mustered all his courage to take part in the game.
  他鼓起全部的勇气参加比赛。
• The chief mustered his supporters.
  首领召集起他的支持者。
• I ordered all the raw recruits to be mustered.
  我命令叫所有的新兵都集合起来。
• The next spring Ben-Hadad mustered the Arameans and went up to Aphek to fight against Israel.
  次年，便哈达果然点齐亚兰人上亚弗去，要与以色列人打仗。
• Eli mustered the courage to tell his parents.
  伊莱终于鼓起勇气告诉父母。
• David mustered the men who were with him and appointed over them commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds.
  大卫数点跟随他的人，立千夫长，百夫长率领他们。
• But as she mustered courage and decided to carry on with her pregnancy, the woman fell into an invisible growing world of unwed mothers struggling to survive in tradition-dominated China.
  然而当她鼓起勇气决定继续妊娠将留住孩子的时候，她陷入了一个不断变大着的无形世界&在那个世界里，未婚妈妈们在传统统治下的中国竭力生存。
• Many regiments of volunteers were mustered into service at the beginning of the war.
  战争初期征召了许多志愿军。
• I mustered all my sources and expertise to come up with the right words to soothe them.
  我使出浑身解数，想说出恰当的话来安慰他们。