mast

• n. マスト；柱；どんぐり
• vt.マストに艤装する...
• n. （マスト）人の名前；（ドイツ語、英語、フランス語、スペイン語、フィンランド語）Mast.

古英語maestから、原ゲルマン語*mastazから、PIE *mazdo、ポール、ロッド、語源的にはmasturbateと同じ。

mast (n.1)

"long pole on a ship to support the sail," Old English m?st, from Proto-Germanic *mastaz (cognates: Old Norse mastr, Middle Dutch maste, Dutch, Danish mast, German Mast), from PIE *mazdo- "a pole, rod" (cognates: Latin malus "mast," Old Irish matan "club," Irish maide "a stick," Old Church Slavonic mostu "bridge"). The single mast of an old ship was the boundary between quarters of officers and crew, hence before the mast in the title of Dana's book, etc.

mast (n.2)

"fallen nuts; food for swine," Old English m?st, from Proto-Germanic *masto (cognates: Dutch, Old High German, German mast "mast;" Old English verb m?sten "to fatten, feed"), perhaps from PIE *mad-sta-, from root *mad- "moist, wet," also used of various qualities of food (cognates: Sanskrit madati "it bubbles, gladdens," medah "fat, marrow;" Latin madere "be sodden, be drunk;" Middle Persian mast "drunk;" Old English mete "food," Old High German muos "meal, mushlike food," Gothic mats "food").

1. He has nailed his colours firmly to Mr Dobson 's mast .

彼はドブソン氏を断固支持すると表明した。

2.Mr Kennedy nailed his colours to the mast of the single currency.

ケネディ氏は単一通貨制を支持すると表明した。

3.It 's your turn to nail your colours to the mast .

あなたがあなたの意見を述べる番です。

4.Flags are flying at half- mast across China.

中国全土で半旗を掲揚する。

5.The sails were flapping against the mast .

帆がマストをたたいている.