beam-ends是什么意思

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beam-ends 是什么意思

	〔pl.〕【航海】船梁末端 (on her beam-ends 船身快要倾覆。 on one's [the] beam-ends 濒临危境；计穷智尽；(经济)窘迫万分)。★亦可写作 on the beam's ends。

(nautical) at the ends of the transverse deck beams of a vessel; "on her beam-ends" means heeled over on the side so that the deck is almost vertical

He is on his beam-ends .
他穷途末路了。

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