The ballast placed in the ship can keep the ship steady. 放在船上的压舱物可以保持船的平稳。
Pig iron used as permanent ballast. 压载铁做为永久性压舱物的生铁
He has got no ballast whatever. 他这个人一点也不沉着。
ballast
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any heavy material used to stabilize a ship or airship
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coarse gravel laid to form a bed for streets and railroads
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an attribute that tends to give stability in character and morals; something that steadies the mind or feelings
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a resistor inserted into a circuit to compensate for changes (as those arising from temperature fluctuations)
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an electrical device for starting and regulating fluorescent and discharge lamps
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make steady with a ballast
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Ballast \Bal"last\ (b[a^]l"last), n. [D. ballast; akin to Dan. baglast, ballast, OSw. barlast, Sw. ballast. The first part is perh. the same word as E. bare, adj.; the second is last a burden, and hence the meaning a bare, or mere, load. See {Bare}, a., and {Last} load.] 1. (Naut.) Any heavy substance, as stone, iron, etc., put into the hold to sink a vessel in the water to such a depth as to prevent capsizing.
2. Any heavy matter put into the car of a balloon to give it steadiness.
3. Gravel, broken stone, etc., laid in the bed of a railroad to make it firm and solid.
4. The larger solids, as broken stone or gravel, used in making concrete.
5. Fig.: That which gives, or helps to maintain, uprightness, steadiness, and security.
It [piety] is the right ballast of prosperity. --Barrow.
{Ballast engine}, a steam engine used in excavating and for digging and raising stones and gravel for ballast.
{Ship in ballast}, a ship carrying only ballast.
Ballast \Bal"last\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ballasted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ballasting}.] 1. To steady, as a vessel, by putting heavy substances in the hold.
2. To fill in, as the bed of a railroad, with gravel, stone, etc., in order to make it firm and solid.
3. To keep steady; to steady, morally.
'T is charity must ballast the heart. --Hammond.
The people on board in chairs got tossed around like ballast," Bryant said.
The hull was gashed and the ship took on water in its forward ballast tank.
In 1980, 22 Dominican stowaways died of suffocation in the ballast tank of the Panamanian-registered Regina Express bound for Miami.
The company suggests filling the cargo tanks 15% less than normal and keeping the ballast tanks filled with water on all voyages so the vessel rides lower in the ocean.
After decades of decline, the river banks are today home to dilapidated warehouses and ballast heaps. But East Quayside has now received a potential shot in the arm.
As it stands now, Section 301, which is invoked to retaliate against closed foreign markets, is aimed at specific sectors and doesn't carry the ballast of deadlines and mandatory actions.
Crews were unloading ballast water Friday afternoon and preparing to remove some of the crude oil onto a barge, he said.
Instead, the baskets were sent down with ballast and the astronauts and others took an elevator to ground level and re-entered the baskets.
A spare mast had been bolted to the keel to stiffen her. Rocks and bags of gravel and rocks served as ballast. The group's only reachable source of help, South Georgia, was a mere speck in the ocean, 800 miles distant.
A Belgian port official said a failed ballast system may have caused the ferry to capsize.
Izumi said Niwa was staying at a low altitude by holding on to his ballast so the balloon would drift farther south before entering the jet stream.
"There is growing concern that the introduction of non-indigenous species by ships, particularly through their ballast water, has affected the ecosystems and economies of countries around the world," said Capt.
He then jettisoned most of his ballast and rose in altitude, but missed the high-speed winds, said Hiroaki Tanaka, another project spokesman.
The ballast water treatment plant was designed to separate oil from water and then eject the treated water back into Valdez Harbor.
Niwa said earlier he was staying low by holding on to his ballast so the balloon would drift farther south before entering the jet stream.
Up to a point, the intention was realised. On Sunday, the excellence of the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus was the ballast of the performance.
Valmont Industries Inc. said it agreed to buy General Electric Co.'s electrical ballast products business.
Both parties accepted that finding. After proceeding to South America in ballast, the vessel performed two voyages from Trombetas in Brazil, carrying bauxite cargoes to Matansaz on the River Orinoco in Venezuela.
The tanker floated free of the reef on the rising tide Friday night after its ballast water was pumped out.
In some cases their reductions in remuneration were the surplus ballast ditched to keep the company afloat. So what is remuneration, as opposed just to salaries?
Workers' compensation is a classic societal safety net. The challenge is to make it available and reliable for those who need it by making sure the financial supports are strong and getting rid of the ballast of middle men holding it too near the ground.
A spokesman for Exxon Pipeline said one of the things workers have to do is make sure "storage tanks have ballast in them, a certain amount of oil so the tanks don't float in the event of high water."
At issue is treament and discharge of ballast water-sea water taken into the oily bays of tankers to provide stability during the rough passage from the continental U.S. to Alaska.
Newman's hang glider dangled beneath the gondola and 5,500 pounds of sand and lead for ballast hung over the sides in bags.
The discharge of contaminated ballast water into the plant has been the subject of contention for years in Valdez.
It is not growth." Most of the Beira railroad track has been relaid with concrete ties instead of timber ones, Canadian rails, and heavier ballast. It is much harder to sabotage and an explosion is less likely to derail a train.