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词组 on your beam ends
释义

on your beam ends near the end of your resources; desperate.

☞ The beam referred to here is one of the main horizontal transverse timbers of a wooden ship; compare with broad in the beam (atbroad). The phrase originated as the nautical term on her beam ends, and was used of a ship that had heeled over on its side and was almost capsizing.

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