Thursday, May 25, 2006

berth

  • noun [C]
1 a place to sleep on a train or boat
http://www.baylinerownersclub.org/albums/album263/V_berth.sized.jpg
2 the place where a ship comes to land
http://www.classicalarchives.com/gif/berth.jpg

a wide berth
Ample space or distance to avoid an unwanted consequence:
避开,对…敬而远之:充分的空间或距离以避免不必要的后果:
gave their angry colleague a wide berth.
对他们的愤怒的同事敬而远之

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