mother-ship

基本解释

The undertaker asked, 'Why would you spend ?5,000 to ship your mother-in-law home, when it would be wonderful to have her buried here and spend only ?150?
殡仪人员问道，“为什么要花5000英镑运岳母回家，葬在这里只花150英镑，这很好呀？”
Under the design speed, the propulsive efficiencies of the special stern shapes will be increased by more than 15%, 20%, 10%, 8-10% compared with corresponding mother ship respectively.
在设计航速下，与各自的对比常规双桨船型相比较，提高推进效率分别为15％以上，20％以上，10%左右，8-10%。
Japan has suspended its annual whale hunt in the Antarctic for now after a hardline anti-whaling group gave chase to its mother ship and it may call the fleet back home, a government official said.
日本某政府官员日前表示，由于捕鲸船队母舰受到态度强硬的反捕鲸团体的追捕，将暂停本年度在南极海域的捕鲸活动，并可能下令捕鲸船队返航。

The idea is to create an impressive extraterrestrial firework display to celebrate the success of the American rebellion while at the same time allowing the mother-ship to record what is inside the comet.
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Every half-hour or so, a black-clad Apple employee would emerge from the massive, monolithic mother ship--kind of like a Steve Jobs Mini-Me--to indoctrinate a group of Apple fans on the intricacies of Apple's Time Machine backup software or other Mac marvels.
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Meanwhile in Egypt, the agenda of the Islamists' mother ship - the Muslim Brotherhood - is being adopted even before elections formally bring it to power.
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